I just saw the reply from Shalin after sending this email. Kindly excuse.
On 10/5/09 5:17 PM, "Prasanna Ranganathan" <pranganat...@netflix.com> wrote: > > Can someone please give me some pointers to the questions in my earlier > email? And and every help is much appreciated. > > Regards, > > Prasanna. > > > On 10/2/09 11:01 AM, "Prasanna Ranganathan" <pranganat...@netflix.com> wrote: > >> >> Does the PatternReplaceFilter have an option where you can keep the original >> token in addition to the modified token? From what I looked at it does not >> seem to but I want to confirm the same. >> >> Alternatively, is there a filter available which takes in a pattern and >> produces additional forms of the token depending on the pattern? The use case >> I am looking at here is using such a filter to automate synonym generation. >> In our application, quite a few of the synonym file entries match a specific >> pattern and having such a filter would make it easier I believe. Pl. do >> correct me in case I am missing some unwanted side-effect with this approach. >> >> Continuing on that line, what is the performance hit in having additional >> index-time filters as opposed to using a synonym file with more entries? How >> does the overhead of using a bigger synonym file as opposed to additional >> filters compare? >> >> Thanks in advance for the help. >> >> Regards, >> >> Prasanna.
