http://lucene-qe.sourceforge.net/ This is a much smarter technique for doing query expansion with synonyms, using "Rocchio's Algorithm". Has anyone tried to shoehorn this into Solr? It's a little weird: it needs an analyser, a searcher, and a similarity function. It should be possible to refactor it into a filter. It can use a file or can interactively query Google Synonyms! Lance . Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.23.4/1395 - Release Date: 24.04.2008 7:24