given that example, the easy way is a boolean AND query of all the terms:
http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_6_0/core/org/apache/lucene/search/BooleanQuery.html However, if your corpus is more sophisticated you'll find that relevance ranking is not always that trivial :) On Aug 19, 2014, at 11:00 AM, Jin Guang Zheng <zhen...@rpi.edu> wrote: Hi, I am wondering if someone can help me on this: I have index: doc 1 -- label: United States of America doc 2 -- label: United doc 2 -- label: America doc 2 -- label: States I am wondering how to generate a query with terms: states united america so only doc 1 returns. I was thinking SpanNearQuery, but can't make it work. Thanks, Jin
