Hi Uri, Yes, I think that would make sense (word vs. synonym token types). Custom boosting/weighting of original token vs. synonym token(s) also makes sense. Is this something you can provide a patch for?
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Uri Boness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:56:02 PM > Subject: synonym token types and ranking > > Hi, > > I've noticed that currently the SynonymFilter replaces the original > token with the configured tokens list (which includes the original > matched token) and each one of these tokens is of type "word". Wouldn't > it make more sense to only mark the original token as type "word" and > the the other tokens as "synonym" types? In addition, once payloads are > integrated with Solr, it would be nice if it would be possible to > configure a payload for synonyms. One of the requirements we're > currently facing in our project is that matches on synonyms should weigh > less than exact matches. > > cheers, > Uri
