Hello! I'm not particularly familiar with lucene's search api (as I've been using the library mostly as a dumb index rather than a search engine), but I am almost certain that, using its payload capabilities, it would be trivial to implement a regular chunker to look for patterns in sequences of payloads.
(trying not to be too pedantic, a regular chunker looks for 'chunks' based on part-of-speech tags, e.g. noun phrases can be searched for with patterns like "(DT)?(JJ)*(NN|NP)+", that is, an optional determinant and zero or more adjectives preceding a bunch of nouns, etc) Assuming my index has POS tags encoded as payloads for each position, how would one search for such patterns, irrespective of terms? I started studying the spans search API, as this seemed like the natural place to start, but I quickly got lost. Any tips would be extremely appreciated. (or references to this kind of thing, I'm sure someone must have tried something similar before...) thanks! ~jta -- sent from a phone. please excuse terseness and tpyos. enviado desde un teléfono. por favor disculpe la parquedad y los erroers.
