Re: Synonym file for American-British words

Hi Alex, I implemented something similar using the rules described in this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_and_British_English_spelling_differences The idea is to normalize the British spelling form to the American form during indexing and query using a tokenizer that takes in a wo

RE: Synonym file for American-British words

Sorry, the VarCon file is here: http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ Sincerely, Alex -Original Message- From: Alexander Cougarman [mailto:acoug...@bwc.org] Sent: 7 August 2012 5:09 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Synonym file for American-British words Dear friends, Is there

Re: synonym file

2 11:32 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: synonym file Actually FST (and SynFilter based on it) was backported to 3.x. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Jack Krupansky wrote: The Lucene FST guys made a big improvement in synonym fi

Re: synonym file

Actually FST (and SynFilter based on it) was backported to 3.x. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > The Lucene FST guys made a big improvement in synonym filtering in > Lucene/Solr 4.0 using FSTs. Or are you already using that?

Re: synonym file

The Lucene FST guys made a big improvement in synonym filtering in Lucene/Solr 4.0 using FSTs. Or are you already using that? Or if you are stuck with pre-4.0, you could do a preprocessor that efficiently generates boolean queries for the synonym expansions. That should give you more decent qu

Re: synonym file

If you must have them a query time, you need a custom implementation for very very large files :) If you can use these synonyms at index time instead of query time, that would help. When you index, do not call commit very often. The synonym filter implementation has a feature where it only saves t

Re: Synonym file in a different location or loading synonyms from database

Thanks Otis. I tried putting the absolute path and it worked. But I wanted something configurable so that it can be changed if required.(may be thro an admin interface?) In the mean time, another idea stuck to maintain all the synonyms in database. I tried writing a FilterFactory of my own for c

Re: Synonym file in a different location

Hi Raja, Try putting the absolute path to the synonyms file in the schema.xml. If that doesn't work you can always just use 'ln': http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?ln Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch - Original Message > From: rajam > To: solr