Lucene Fuzzy Match on Phrase instead of Single Word

Question

I'm trying to do a fuzzy match on the Phrase "Grand Prarie" (deliberately misspelled) using Apache Lucene. Part of my issue is that the ~ operator only does fuzzy matches on single word terms and behaves as a proximity match for phrases.

Is there a way to do a fuzzy match on a phrase with lucene?

Answer 1

There's no direct support for a fuzzy phrase, but you can simulate it by explicitly enumerating the fuzzy terms and then adding them to a MultiPhraseQuery. The resulting query would look like:

<MultiPhraseQuery: "grand (prarie prairie)">

Answer 2

Lucene 3.0 has ComplexPhraseQueryParser that supports fuzzy phrase query. This is in the contrib package.