apache / apache/lucene

Make multi-field search a first-class citizen

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Description

### Description

Searching across multiple fields is a very frequent need, e.g. both Solr and Elasticsearch allow searching a query string on multiple fields, yet Lucene doesn't make it easy.

- [x] #14236
- [ ] #14262
- [ ] Improve docs wrt robust approaches for combining scores across multiple fields

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Research direction

Start by reading the linked issues #14236 and #14262 to understand which parts of multi-field search are already addressed and what remains. The open work described here is to improve the documentation of robust approaches for combining scores across multiple fields; done means those approaches are clearly documented.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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