基于@Alexandre Victoor的回答，我在contrib程序包中（并使用其中包含的LuceneDictionary）编写了一个基于Lucene
Spellchecker的小类，它完全可以实现我想要的功能。

这允许从具有单个字段的单个源索引重新索引，并提供术语建议。结果将按照原始索引中带有该术语的匹配文档的数量进行排序，因此，较流行的术语会首先出现。似乎工作得很好：）

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.ISOLatin1AccentFilter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.LowerCaseFilter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.StopFilter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.ngram.EdgeNGramTokenFilter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.ngram.EdgeNGramTokenFilter.Side;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardFilter;
import org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardTokenizer;
import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
import org.apache.lucene.index.CorruptIndexException;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter;
import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
import org.apache.lucene.search.ScoreDoc;
import org.apache.lucene.search.Sort;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocs;
import org.apache.lucene.search.spell.LuceneDictionary;
import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
import org.apache.lucene.store.FSDirectory;

/**
 * Search term auto-completer, works for single terms (so use on the last term
 * of the query).
 * <p>
 * Returns more popular terms first.
 * 
 * @author Mat Mannion, M.Mannion@warwick.ac.uk
 */
public final class Autocompleter {

    private static final String GRAMMED_WORDS_FIELD = "words";

    private static final String SOURCE_WORD_FIELD = "sourceWord";

    private static final String COUNT_FIELD = "count";

    private static final String[] ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS = {
    "a", "an", "and", "are", "as", "at", "be", "but", "by",
    "for", "i", "if", "in", "into", "is",
    "no", "not", "of", "on", "or", "s", "such",
    "t", "that", "the", "their", "then", "there", "these",
    "they", "this", "to", "was", "will", "with"
    };

    private final Directory autoCompleteDirectory;

    private IndexReader autoCompleteReader;

    private IndexSearcher autoCompleteSearcher;

    public Autocompleter(String autoCompleteDir) throws IOException {
        this.autoCompleteDirectory = FSDirectory.getDirectory(autoCompleteDir,
                null);

        reOpenReader();
    }

    public List<String> suggestTermsFor(String term) throws IOException {
        // get the top 5 terms for query
        Query query = new TermQuery(new Term(GRAMMED_WORDS_FIELD, term));
        Sort sort = new Sort(COUNT_FIELD, true);

        TopDocs docs = autoCompleteSearcher.search(query, null, 5, sort);
        List<String> suggestions = new ArrayList<String>();
        for (ScoreDoc doc : docs.scoreDocs) {
            suggestions.add(autoCompleteReader.document(doc.doc).get(
                    SOURCE_WORD_FIELD));
        }

        return suggestions;
    }

    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public void reIndex(Directory sourceDirectory, String fieldToAutocomplete)
            throws CorruptIndexException, IOException {
        // build a dictionary (from the spell package)
        IndexReader sourceReader = IndexReader.open(sourceDirectory);

        LuceneDictionary dict = new LuceneDictionary(sourceReader,
                fieldToAutocomplete);

        // code from
        // org.apache.lucene.search.spell.SpellChecker.indexDictionary(
        // Dictionary)
        IndexReader.unlock(autoCompleteDirectory);

        // use a custom analyzer so we can do EdgeNGramFiltering
        IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(autoCompleteDirectory,
        new Analyzer() {
            public TokenStream tokenStream(String fieldName,
                    Reader reader) {
                TokenStream result = new StandardTokenizer(reader);

                result = new StandardFilter(result);
                result = new LowerCaseFilter(result);
                result = new ISOLatin1AccentFilter(result);
                result = new StopFilter(result,
                    ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS);
                result = new EdgeNGramTokenFilter(
                    result, Side.FRONT,1, 20);

                return result;
            }
        }, true);

        writer.setMergeFactor(300);
        writer.setMaxBufferedDocs(150);

        // go through every word, storing the original word (incl. n-grams) 
        // and the number of times it occurs
        Map<String, Integer> wordsMap = new HashMap<String, Integer>();

        Iterator<String> iter = (Iterator<String>) dict.getWordsIterator();
        while (iter.hasNext()) {
            String word = iter.next();

            int len = word.length();
            if (len < 3) {
                continue; // too short we bail but "too long" is fine...
            }

            if (wordsMap.containsKey(word)) {
                throw new IllegalStateException(
                        "This should never happen in Lucene 2.3.2");
                // wordsMap.put(word, wordsMap.get(word) + 1);
            } else {
                // use the number of documents this word appears in
                wordsMap.put(word, sourceReader.docFreq(new Term(
                        fieldToAutocomplete, word)));
            }
        }

        for (String word : wordsMap.keySet()) {
            // ok index the word
            Document doc = new Document();
            doc.add(new Field(SOURCE_WORD_FIELD, word, Field.Store.YES,
                    Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED)); // orig term
            doc.add(new Field(GRAMMED_WORDS_FIELD, word, Field.Store.YES,
                    Field.Index.TOKENIZED)); // grammed
            doc.add(new Field(COUNT_FIELD,
                    Integer.toString(wordsMap.get(word)), Field.Store.NO,
                    Field.Index.UN_TOKENIZED)); // count

            writer.addDocument(doc);
        }

        sourceReader.close();

        // close writer
        writer.optimize();
        writer.close();

        // re-open our reader
        reOpenReader();
    }

    private void reOpenReader() throws CorruptIndexException, IOException {
        if (autoCompleteReader == null) {
            autoCompleteReader = IndexReader.open(autoCompleteDirectory);
        } else {
            autoCompleteReader.reopen();
        }

        autoCompleteSearcher = new IndexSearcher(autoCompleteReader);
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Autocompleter autocomplete = new Autocompleter("/index/autocomplete");

        // run this to re-index from the current index, shouldn't need to do
        // this very often
        // autocomplete.reIndex(FSDirectory.getDirectory("/index/live", null),
        // "content");

        String term = "steve";

        System.out.println(autocomplete.suggestTermsFor(term));
        // prints [steve, steven, stevens, stevenson, stevenage]
    }

}