Class CommonTermsQuery

A query that executes high-frequency terms in a optional sub-query to prevent slow queries due to "common" terms like stopwords. This query builds 2 queries off the Add(Term) added terms: low-frequency terms are added to a required boolean clause and high-frequency terms are added to an optional boolean clause. The optional clause is only executed if the required "low-frequency" clause matches. Scores produced by this query will be slightly different than plain BooleanQuery scorer mainly due to differences in the number of leaf queries in the required boolean clause. In most cases, high-frequency terms are unlikely to significantly contribute to the document score unless at least one of the low-frequency terms are matched. This query can improve query execution times significantly if applicable.

CommonTermsQuery has several advantages over stopword filtering at index or query time since a term can be "classified" based on the actual document frequency in the index and can prevent slow queries even across domains without specialized stopword files.

Note: if the query only contains high-frequency terms the query is rewritten into a plain conjunction query ie. all high-frequency terms need to match in order to match a document.

Collection initializer note: To create and populate a CommonTermsQuery in a single statement, you can use the following example as a guide:

var query = new CommonTermsQuery() {
    new Term("field", "microsoft"), 
    new Term("field", "office")
};