But if "SEF" and "OFF" are known to be searched for and especially if they are well-delimited, they could just be pulled-out into a separate field and just checked with an FQ.
In the end, there may be no need for either EdgeNGram or wildcards. Just twisting the data during _indexing_ to represent the business domain requirements. Regards, Alex. On 23 September 2016 at 10:39, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you can break these up into tokens somehow, that's clearly best. But from > the > patterns you show it's not likely. WordDelimiterFactory won't quite > work since it > wouldn't be able to separate ASEF into the token SEF.....