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search interface for scholarly works
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better query support for exact matching #60

Open bnewbold opened 3 years ago

bnewbold commented 3 years ago

Partially a query parsing issue, but likely to also be an indexing issue.

Especially in technical fields, or when doing digital humanities-style queries, there are a lot of valid queries which include meta characters. Not clear how to represent many of these in the Lucene query syntax, or to escape out to a simpler syntax. Also not clear how many of these can even be handled by the query engine. Some examples: