: Your requirement is still somewhat ambiguous - you use "fully" and "some" in : the same sentence. Which is it?
the request seems pretty clear to me... : I don't want to get documents that fit my whole query, I want those : documents that are fully satisfied with some terms of the query. ...my reading is: * given a set of documents each containing an arbitrary number of "doc_terms" in "field_f" * given a query "q" containing an arbitrary number of "q_terms" * find all documents where every "doc_term" in that document's "field_f" exists in the query as a "q_term" ie: all terms of the document must exist in the query for the doc to match, but not all terms from the query must exist in a document. There is no trivial out of the box solution at the moment, but there is a solution possible using function queries as described in this email... https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/lucene-solr-user/201308.mbox/%3Calpine.DEB.2.02.1308091122150.2685@frisbee%3E Repeating the key bits below... -Hoss ... 1) if you don't care about using non-trivial analysis (ie: you don't need stemming, or synonyms, etc..), you can do this with some really simple function queries -- asusming you index a field containing hte number of "words" in each document, in addition to the words themselves. Assuming your words are in a field named "words" and the number of words is in a field named "words_count" a request for something like "Galaxy Samsung S4" can be represented as... q={!frange l=0 u=0}sub(words_count, sum(termfreq('words','Galaxy'), termfreq('words','Samsung'), termfreq('words','S4')) ...ie: you want to compute the sub of the term frequencies for each of hte words requested, and then you want ot subtract that sum from the number of terms in the documengt -- and then you only want ot match documents where the result of that subtraction is 0. one complexity that comes up, is that you haven't specified: * can the list of words in your documents contain duplicates? * can the list of words in your query contain duplicates? * should a document with duplicatewords match only if the query also contains the same word duplicated? ...the answers to those questions make hte math more complicated (and are left as an excersize for the reader) 2) if you *do* care about using non-trivial analysis, then you can't use the simple "termfreq()" function, which deals with raw terms -- in stead you have to use the "query()" function to ensure that the input is parsed appropriately -- but then you have to wrap that function in something that will normalize the scores - so in place of termfreq('words','Galaxy') you'd want something like... if(query({!field f=words v='Galaxy'}),1,0) ...but again the math gets much harder if you make things more complex with duplicate words i nthe document or duplicate words in the query -- you'd probably have to use a custom similarity to get the scores returned by the query() function to be usable as is in the match equation (and drop the "if()" function)
