For #3 specifically, I've always found this page useful: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Field+Properties+by+Use+Case
It lists out what properties are necessary on each field based on a use case. Kevin Risden On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > (1) No that I have readily at hand. And to make it > worse, there's the UnifiedHighlighter coming out soon.... > > I don't think there's a good way for (2). > > for (3) at least yes. The reason is simple. For analyzed text, > the only thing in the index is what's made it through the > analysis chains. So stopwords are missing. Stemming > has been done. You could even have put a phonetic filter > in there and have terms like ARDT KNTR which would > be...er...not very useful to show the end user so the original > text must be available. > > > > > Not much help... > Erick > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:43 AM, John Bickerstaff > <j...@johnbickerstaff.com> wrote: > > All, > > > > One of the questions I've been asked to answer / prove out is around the > > question of highlighting query matches in responses. > > > > BTW - One assumption I'm making is that highlighting is basically a > > function of storing offsets for terms / tokens at index time. If that's > > not right, I'd be grateful for pointers in the right direction. > > > > My underlying need is to get highlighting on search term matches for > > returned documents. I need to choose between doing this in Solr and > using > > an external document store, so I'm interested in whether Solr can provide > > the doc store with the information necessary to identify which section(s) > > of the doc to highlight in a query response... > > > > A few questions: > > > > 1. This page doesn't say a lot about how things work - is there somewhere > > with more information on dealing with offsets and highlighting? On > offsets > > and how they're handled? > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Highlighting > > > > 2. Can I return offset information with a query response or is that > > internal only? If yes, can I return offset info if I have NOT stored the > > data in Solr but indexed only? > > > > (Explanation: Currently my project is considering indexing only and > storing > > the entire text elsewhere -- using Solr to return only doc ID's for > > searches. If Solr could also return offsets, these could be used in > > processing the text stored elsewhere to provide highlighting) > > > > 3. Do I assume correctly that in order for Solr highlighting to work > > correctly, the text MUST also be stored in Solr (I.E. not indexed only, > but > > stored=true) > > > > Many thanks... >
