: Is it possible to do this without manually splitting up the title : string I'm searching for into terms and then making a compound query : with each of the terms as a fuzzy?
not out of the box ... Lucene has no native concept of a "fuzzy phrase query" ... you would either need to implement one, or come up with a custom QueryParser or Analyzer to do the bulk of the work. writing that QueryParser night not be that hard, Lucene already has a FuzzyTermEnum class for getting hte list of all Terms similar to a specific term, and a MultiPhraseQuery for making phrase queries where each position in the phrase can match any one of several terms you specificy ... it's would just be a matter of subclassing the appropriate QueryParser method for dealing with PhraseQueries, and taking each "raw" term and running it through FuzzyTermEnum to get all the variations to put in your MultiPhraseQuery. -Hoss
