: I discovered that moving the synonym expansion to at index time rather than : query time works just fine with my synonym list. : : I'd still like to know why it doesn't work expanding at query time : though.... :(
did you read the comments in the wiki about SynonymFilterFactory? particularly the part after the example where it says "Keep in mind..." http://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#SynonymFilter -Hoss