Yes, this can be achieved using SpanNearQuery with inOrder flag (third argument to the constructor) set to false.
there is a good example (Listing 5.10) in Lucene in action if you want to take a look. Thanks Saurabh On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 5:18 PM, <ikoelli...@daegis.com> wrote: > Hello, > We are using phrase queries with a slop value to perform Near and Within > style searches and the issue we are encountering is as follows: > > Since the slop value in the PhraseQuery is the edit-distance, a message > with the terms 'thank' and 'you' will be found with a query of field:"thank > you"~1 but will not be found with a query of field:"you thank"~1. Currently > to work around this nuance I am creating a new query of field:("you thank"~1 > OR "thank you"~1). > > Can I solve this by constructing a SpanNearQuery with two > SpanTermQuery("thank") and SpanTermQuery("you") and a slop value of 1 and > the ordering of false? > > Thanks, > Ian Koelliker >