[LUCENE-3980] Word order seems to affect proximity searching

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Component/s: core/search
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ian Pooley
• Created: 13/Apr/12 15:32
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 13:14
• Resolved: 13/Apr/12 16:17

Description

It would appear that the order of words within a search query affects a proximity search.

For instance, for the text "The proximity operator seems to match differently based on word order", a match is found for "proximity order"~8 but is not found for "order proximity"~8. In order for the latter to find a match, it needs to be changed to "order proximity"~10.

Both the text and the query are processed using org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardAnalyzer.