Make multi-field search a first-class citizen
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- Java
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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
Contributor guide
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