Yes, I'm fairly new as well. So do you mean adding words to the query effectively doing an "or" between synonymous terms? That sounds simple way of doing it, if this works, what makes indexing with synonyms useful?
Ravish On Jan 25, 2008 2:42 PM, Jon Lehto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Ravish, > > You may want to think about the synonym dictionary as being a tool on the > side, rather than each indexed document having a copy of the synonyms. At > indexing time, one might normalize synonyms to a single value, and at query > time do the same to get the match. > > Alternately, use the synonym dictionary at run-time to expand a > user's query terms, like a thesaurus. > > That said, I'm new to the tool, and not clear on how synonyms are implemented. > > Jon > ===================== > From: Ravish Bhagdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/01/25 Fri AM 08:24:33 CST > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Is it possible to add synonyms run time? > > > As I understood from available documentation, synonyms need to be > defined before starting the indexing process. Is it possible to add > synonyms at run time such that all index fields of all documents get > updated? Does it work for newly added documents atleast? > > Also, how to make each user of application define his own set of > synonyms that others should be oblivious to (others get normal results > without synon considered) > > Thanks, > Ravish > >
