Re: Check my thinking on this, wildcard matching in phrases.

2014-03-14 Thread Erick Erickson
Ahmet: I saw your patch updating to 4.7. I have a long plane ride this afternoon that I hope to use to look at it more closely. Thanks for updating it! And thanks for your comment on putting the $ in the full token, I hadn't thought of that, but I think you're absolutely right. Thanks On Fr

Re: Check my thinking on this, wildcard matching in phrases.

2014-03-14 Thread Ahmet Arslan
Hi Erick, I think it'a very good idea.  What happens when you search "my$ dog$"? I think it does not retrieve your example document.  Since * means zero or more chars, I wonder that would be the expected behaviour.  If you inject last token with and without $, would that harm anything?  d$ do$

Re: Check my thinking on this, wildcard matching in phrases.

2014-03-13 Thread Alexandre Rafalovitch
Different but (conceptually) similar? http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/2012/03/boosting-on-exactish-anchored-phrase-matching-in-solr-sst-4/index.html Regards, Alex. Personal website: http://www.outerthoughts.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrerafalovitch - Time is the qualit

Check my thinking on this, wildcard matching in phrases.

2014-03-13 Thread Erick Erickson
or "why haven't I thought of this before"? I'm once again being faced with the recurring problem of phrase searches with wildcards. It'll lead to index bloat, but that's acceptable in this situation, at least until proved not so. The surround query parser can deal with wildcards and proximith, bu