Lucene: Multi-word phrases as search terms

Question

I\'m trying to make a searchable phone/local business directory using Apache Lucene.

I have fields for street name, business name, phone number etc. The problem tha

Answer 1

If you want an exact words match the street, you could set Field "Street" NOT_ANALYZED which will not filter stop word "the".

doc.add(new Field("Street", "the crescent", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.Not_Analyzed);