: parallel arrays, one array per address-part field. The parallel array : alignment is effected via alignment of position increments. What's : missing from Solr/Lucene is the ability to constrain matches such that : the position increment of all matching address-part fields is the same.
It exists using Span Queries... http://lucene.apache.org/java/3_0_1/api/all/org/apache/lucene/search/spans/FieldMaskingSpanQuery.html ...this let's you construct a SpanNearQuery requiring that a span on fieldA occurs "near" a span on fieldB (in terms of position value, even though the fields are different). The only thing that's really missing as far as i can see is a "SpanNumericRangeQuery" -Hoss
