Hi Ryan, "eappointment" has a Leveinstein distance of 1 edit from "appointment" ( 1 insertion) . There's should be any problem to provide that suggestion, as the solr spellcheck supports up to 2 edits as a maximum distance.
Cheers On 27 November 2015 at 03:41, Ryan Yacyshyn <ryan.yacys...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to provide spelling suggestions if it's just the first > character that's wrong (or has an additional character added)? > > We have users querying for "eappointment" when they should just be > searching for "appointment". I'd like to show "appointment" as a spelling > suggestion for "eappointment". > > Is this possible? > > I'm using 4.10.1 and below are my configs: > > *<!-- the **spellchecking** defaults in my **requestHandler** -->* > <str name="spellcheck">on</str> > <str name="spellcheck.extendedResults">false</str> > <str name="spellcheck.count">1</str> > <str name="spellcheck.alternativeTermCount">1</str> > <str name="spellcheck.maxResultsForSuggest">1</str> > <str name="spellcheck.collate">true</str> > <str name="spellcheck.collateExtendedResults">false</str> > <str name="spellcheck.maxCollationTries">5</str> > <str name="spellcheck.maxCollations">1</str> > > *<!-- **spellchecking** component -->* > <searchComponent name="spellcheck" class="solr.SpellCheckComponent"> > <!-- a spellchecker built from a field of the main index --> > <lst name="spellchecker"> > <str name="name">default</str> > <str name="field">spell</str> > <str name="classname">solr.DirectSolrSpellChecker</str> > <!-- the spellcheck distance measure used, the default is the internal > levenshtein --> > <str name="distanceMeasure">internal</str> > <!-- minimum accuracy needed to be considered a valid spellcheck > suggestion --> > <float name="accuracy">0.5</float> > <!-- the maximum #edits we consider when enumerating terms: can be 1 or > 2 --> > <int name="maxEdits">2</int> > <!-- the minimum shared prefix when enumerating terms --> > <int name="minPrefix">1</int> > <!-- maximum number of inspections per result. --> > <int name="maxInspections">5</int> > <!-- minimum length of a query term to be considered for correction --> > <int name="minQueryLength">4</int> > <!-- maximum threshold of documents a query term can appear to be > considered for correction --> > <float name="maxQueryFrequency">0.01</float> > </lst> > </searchComponent> > > Thanks, > Ryan > -- -------------------------- Benedetti Alessandro Visiting card : http://about.me/alessandro_benedetti "Tyger, tyger burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" William Blake - Songs of Experience -1794 England
