Thanks for the help. Can't believe I missed that part in the wiki. 2009/11/24 Tom Hill <solr-l...@worldware.com>
> Hi Brad, > > > I suspect that this section from the wiki for SynonymFilterFactory might be > relevant: > > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#solr.SynonymFilterFactory > > *"Keep in mind that while the SynonymFilter will happily work with synonyms > containing multiple words (ie: "**sea biscuit, sea biscit, seabiscuit**") > The recommended approach for dealing with synonyms like this, is to expand > the synonym when indexing. This is because there are two potential issues > that can arrise at query time:* > > 1. > > *The Lucene QueryParser tokenizes on white space before giving any text > to the Analyzer, so if a person searches for the words **sea biscit** the > analyzer will be given the words "sea" and "biscit" seperately, and will > not > know that they match a synonym."* > > ... > > Tom > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:47 AM, brad anderson <solrinter...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > > > > I was trying to get multi term synonyms to work. I'm experiencing some > > strange behavior and would like some feedback. > > > > In the synonyms file I have the line: > > > > thomas, boll holly, thomas a, john q => tom > > > > And I have a document with the text field as; > > > > tom > > > > However, when I do a search on boll holly, it does not return the > document > > with tom. The same thing happens if I do a query on john q. But if I do a > > query on thomas, it gives me the document. Also, if I quote "boll holly" > or > > "john q" it gives back the document. > > > > When I look at the analyzer page on the solr admin page, it is > transforming > > "boll holly" to "tom" when it isn't quoted. Why is it that it is not > > returning the document? Is there some configuration I can make so it does > > return the document if I do an unquoted search on "boll holly"? > > > > My synonym filter is defined as follows, and is only defined on the query > > side: > > > > <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" > > synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/> > > > > > > I've also tried changing the synonym file to be > > > > tom, thomas, boll holly, thomas a, john q > > > > This produces the same results. > > > > Thanks, > > Brad > > >
