Not a bad idea at all, however ive never used an external file before, just a field in the index, so not an area im familiar with
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:55 AM Audrey Lorberfeld - audrey.lorberf...@ibm.com <audrey.lorberf...@ibm.com> wrote: > David, > > Thank you, that is useful. So, would you recommend using a (clean) field > over an external dictionary file? We have lots of "top queries" and measure > their nDCG. A thought was to programmatically generate an external file > where the weight per query term (or phrase) == its nDCG. Bad idea? > > Best, > Audrey > > On 1/20/20, 11:51 AM, "David Hastings" <hastings.recurs...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Ive used this quite a bit, my biggest piece of advice is to choose a > field > that you know is clean, with well defined terms/words, you dont want an > autocomplete that has a massive dictionary, also it will make the > start/reload times pretty slow > > On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 11:47 AM Audrey Lorberfeld - > audrey.lorberf...@ibm.com <audrey.lorberf...@ibm.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > We plan to incorporate a query autocomplete functionality into our > search > > engine (like this: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lucene.apache.org_solr_guide_8-5F1_suggester.html&d=DwIBaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=_8ViuZIeSRdQjONA8yHWPZIBlhj291HU3JpNIx5a55M&m=L8V-izaMW_v4j-1zvfiXSqm6aAoaRtk-VJXA6okBs_U&s=vnE9KGyF3jky9fSi22XUJEEbKLM1CA7mWAKrl2qhKC0&e= > > ). And I was wondering if anyone has personal experience with this > > component and would like to share? Basically, we are just looking > for some > > best practices from more experienced Solr admins so that we have a > starting > > place to launch this in our beta. > > > > Thank you! > > > > Best, > > Audrey > > > > >
