Hi Stavros, I didn’t check what’s supported in ComplexPhraseQueryParser but that is wrapper around span queries, so you should be able to do what you need: https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_6/other-parsers.html#complex-phrase-query-parser <https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/7_6/other-parsers.html#complex-phrase-query-parser>
HTH, Emir -- Monitoring - Log Management - Alerting - Anomaly Detection Solr & Elasticsearch Consulting Support Training - http://sematext.com/ > On 7 Jul 2020, at 03:11, Stavros Macrakis <macra...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > > (Sorry for sending this with the wrong subject earlier.) > > How can I search for a term except when it's part of certain phrases? > > For example, I might want to find documents mentioning "pepper" where it is > not part of the phrases "chili pepper", "hot pepper", or "pepper sauce". > > It does not work to search for [pepper NOT ("chili pepper" OR "hot pepper" > OR "pepper sauce")] because that excludes all documents which mention > "chili pepper" even if they also mention "black pepper" or the unmodified > word "pepper". Maybe some way using synonyms? > > Thanks! > > -s
