How to index word with hyphen in Lucene?

Question

Hello

I have a StandardAnalyzer working which retrieves words and frequencies from a single document using a TermVectorMapper which is populating a HashMap.

But if I use the following text as a field in my document, i.e.

addDoc(w, "lucene Lawton-Browne Lucene");

The word frequencies returned in the HashMap are:

browne 1 lucene 2 lawton 1

The problem is the words ‘lawton’ and ‘browne’. If this is an actual ‘double-barreled’ name, can Lucene recognise it as ‘Lawton-Browne’ where the name is actually a single word?

I’ve tried combinations of:

addDoc(w, "lucene \”Lawton-Browne\” Lucene");

And single quotes but without success.

Thanks

Mr Morgan.

Answer 1

Escape the characters

see Lucene Documentation here

http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping%20Special%20Characters