Use synonym. Added these line to your ../conf/synonym.txt Stephen,Steven,Steve Bobby,Bob,Robert ...
-----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Drukman Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 3:19 Joe To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Handling proper names Is there any way to tell Solr that Stephen is the same as Steven and Steve? Carl and Karl? Bobby/Bob/Robert, and so on... -jsd-