Synonyms are domain-specific, so general-purpose lists are not very useful.
Ultraseek shipped a British-American synonym list as an example, but even that wasn't very general. One of our customers was a chemical company and was very surprised when the search "rocket fuel" suggested "arugula", even though "rocket" is a perfectly good synonym for "arugula". wunder On 9/30/08 10:14 AM, "Otis Gospodnetic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pierre, > > 1) I don't know, but a good place to check and see what previous answers to > this questions were is markmail.org > 2) I don't think there is such a thing, but I also don't think there are sites > that make this data freely available (answer to 1?) > > Otis > -- > Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Pierre Auslaender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:28:40 AM >> Subject: French synonyms & Online synonyms >> >> Hello, >> >> I'm sure these questions have been raised a million times, I'll try one >> more: >> >> 1/ Is there any general-purpose, free, French synonyms file out there? >> >> 2/ Is there a Solr or Lucene analyser class that could tap an on-line >> resource for synoynms at index-time? And by the same token, maintain and >> complete a synoynms text file? >> >> Thanks for the great work on SOLR and for the liveliness of this list. >> >> Pierre >
