Hi Mitch, You asked how others would solve this problem. I would try to normalize the data before indexing it. In other words, I'd clean it up myself to avoid GIGO situation. Otis ---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Hadoop ecosystem search :: http://search-hadoop.com/
----- Original Message ---- > From: MitchK <mitc...@web.de> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Sun, March 21, 2010 12:28:16 PM > Subject: Facetting with Synonyms > > Hello out there, I got a little problem: Users take care about > what will be indexed and what not. Sometimes there is a little > problem: For example: The artists "Snaga & Pillath" are similar to "S & P". > When I Index the document, I can solve this problem with the help of > a SynonymFilter. However, if I want to retrive some facets over > a result-response, there is a little problem: "S&P" and "Snaga & Pillath" > both will be responsed. Is there a possibility to response only "S&P" OR > "Snaga & Pillath"? I think another example for something like this is > "HP" and "Hewlett Packard". If one user calls the manufacturer of his printer > "HP" and another one says "Hewlett Packard" and you want to do some > facetting, there will be two responsed terms. But the truth is: Every > HP and every Hewlett Packard facet, as well as every Snaga & Pillath/S&P > facet should facet the same documents. How would you solve this > problem? Kind regards - Mitch -- View this message in context: > > target=_blank > >http://old.nabble.com/Facetting-with-Synonyms-tp27976997p27976997.html Sent > from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.