Lucene - Wildcards in phrases

Question

I am currently attempting to use Lucene to search data populated in an index.

I can match on exact phrases by enclosing it in brackets (i.e. \"Processing Documents\"

Answer 1

It seems that the default QueryParser cannot handle this. You can probably create a custom QueryParser for wildcards in phrases. If your example is representative, stemming may solve your problem. Please read the documentation for PorterStemFilter to see whether it fits.