Contains Algorithm Implementation Details

Equivalent to ' term* ' - in other words - a trailing wildcard on a term (but no leading wild card) and the term can appear at any position. 

Algorithm:

The contains search has the following characteristics:

• This search is case in-sensitive. 
• It only searches on the property value and literal property value.
  
• The literal property part of the query is boosted by 50.  This gives a literal match priority.
• A trailing wild card is added to all tokens in the search text.
• Lowercase and special characters removed during query parser parse. 

• Parsing is done with the following analyzers:

  • propertyValue - Uses our custom standard analyzer that has no stop words.

  • literal_propertyValue - Uses our custom literal analyzer.  This literal analyzer uses Lucene's WhitespaceTokenizer with Lucene's LowerCaseFilter.

   

Example of use:

The following examples are based on the Automobiles coding scheme.

Example 1:

Search string: automob

Lucene query: +propertyValue:automob* literal_propertyValue:automob^50.0

Result: 1 result

• entity code: A0001
• entity description: Automobile

Example 2:
Search string: General Motors

Lucene query: (+propertyValue:general* +propertyValue:motors*) ((+literal_propertyValue:general +literal_propertyValue:motors)^50.0)

Result: 1 result

• entity code: GM
• entity description: General Motors

Associated JUnits:

Junits for contains tests can be found here: https://github.com/lexevs/lexevs/blob/master/lbTest/src/test/java/org/LexGrid/LexBIG/Impl/function/query/lucene/searchAlgorithms/TestContains.java