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Create a term proximity scorer

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#247 opened on Feb 17, 2018

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Description

Michael Jackson should get a better score if the two terms appear close to each other in the same document.

It would be nice to have a query that computes something equivalent to

"Michael Jackson"^3 OR (Michael AND jackson)

Conceptually it would just look like the phrasequery, except that the part that checks whether the phrase is present would only affect the score of the document.

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Research direction
Study the existing phrase query implementation and the scorer API in Tantivy. Create a new query type that computes term proximity and adjusts the score accordingly.
Tech stack
rust
Domain
backendapisearch
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Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
RustTantivy API
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40