Thanks Jack, that's a very good option indeed.
But this method in some sense lacks precision with sentence boundaries.
Thinking of alternatives, is it possible to encode multiple values in a single
int for storing position increment and decode it the same way for
SpanNearQueries, and is it not a
You can use SpanNearQuery to seek matches within a specified distance.
Lucene knows nothing about "sentences". But if you have an analyzer or
custom code that artificially bumps the position to the next multiple of
some number like 100 or 1000 when a sentence boundary pattern is
encountered, y
