Phrasal search

[sylvinus]

Queries like "new york times" should search for the exact sequence of words.

Elasticsearch supports this, but it seems that if we want to mix phrase matches with regular matches we will have to do some preprocessing?

[wumpus]

Do you really mean "new york times" in quotes, or the query [new york times] with no quotes? (I use the contention to put query text in [] to avoid ambiguity... then quotes really mean quotes.)

[sylvinus]

Right! I added the Markdown formatting but let's try to stick with [] for queries indeed! I meant ["new york times"] :)

[wumpus]

OK with the quotes, isn't it trivial to do the necessary query parsing?

The non-quotes case is also interesting, because it's much more common. But we can talk about that another time!

[sylvinus]

You're right - this probably isn't a hard issue, I'll downgrade it :)

To make the issue clearer, we also need to support queries like ["new york times" 2016]

[amirouche]

FWIW it's called phrasal search

[sylvinus]

Thanks @amirouche :) Want to have a swing at it ? ;-)