The "phonetic_en" analyzer definition available in solr-schema does return documents having "Jon", "JN", "John" when search term is "John". Checkout screen shot here : http://imgur.com/0R6SvX2
This wiki page explains how phonetic matching works : https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Phonetic+Matching#PhoneticMatching-DoubleMetaphone Hope that helps. On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <arafa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd start by putting LowerCaseFF before the PhoneticFilter. > > But then, you say you were using Analysis screen and what? Do you get > the matches when you put your sample text and the query text in the > two boxes in the UI? I am not sure what "look at my solr data" means > in this particular context. > > Regards, > Alex. > ---- > Newsletter and resources for Solr beginners and intermediates: > http://www.solr-start.com/ > > > On 23 March 2016 at 16:27, Jay Potharaju <jspothar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to do name matching using the phonetic filter factory. As > part > > of that I was analyzing the data using analysis screen in solr UI. If i > > search for john, any documents containing john or jon should be found. > > > > Following is my definition of the custom field that I use for indexing > the > > data. When I look at my solr data I dont see any similar sounding names > in > > my solr data, even though I have set inject="true". Is that not how it is > > supposed to work? > > Can someone explain how phonetic matching works? > > > > <fieldType name="text_phonetic" class="solr.TextField" > positionIncrementGap > > ="100"> > > > > <analyzer> > > > > <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> > > > > <filter class="solr.PhoneticFilterFactory" > encoder="DoubleMetaphone" > > inject="true" maxCodeLength="5"/> > > > > <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> > > > > </analyzer> > > > > </fieldType> > > > > -- > > Thanks > > Jay >
