@Robert: That sounds interesting and very flexible, but also like a lot of work. This approach also doesn't seem to allow querying Solr directly by using Ajax ... one of the big benefits in my opinion when using Solr. @Bill: There are some things I don't like about the Suggester component. It doesn't seem to allow infix searches (at least it is not mentioned in the Wiki or elsewhere). It also uses a separate index that has to be rebuild independently of the main index. And it doesn't support any filter queries.
The Lucid Imagination blog also describes a further autosuggest approach (http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2009/09/08/auto-suggest-from-popular-queries-using-edgengrams/). The disadvantage here is that the source documents must have distinct fields (resp. the dih selects must provide distinct data). Otherwise duplications would come up in the Solr query result, cause of the document nature of Solr. In my opinion field collapsing seems to be most promising for a full featured autosuggestion solution. Unfortunately it is not available for Solr 1.4.x or 3.x (I tried patching those branches several times without success). 2011/3/15 Bill Bell <billnb...@gmail.com>: > http://lucidworks.lucidimagination.com/display/LWEUG/Spell+Checking+and+Aut > omatic+Completion+of+User+Queries > > For Auto-Complete, find the following section in the solrconfig.xml file > for the collection: > <!-- Auto-Complete component --> > <searchComponent name="autocomplete" class="solr.SpellCheckComponent"> > <lst name="spellchecker"> > <str name="name">autocomplete</str> > <str > name="classname">org.apache.solr.spelling.suggest.Suggester</str> > <str > name="lookupImpl">org.apache.solr.spelling.suggest.jaspell.JaspellLookup</s > tr> > <str name="field">autocomplete</str> > <str name="buildOnCommit">true</str> > <!-- > <str name="sourceLocation">american-english</str> > --> > </lst> > > > > > On 3/14/11 8:16 PM, "Andy" <angelf...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >>Can you provide more details? Or a link? >> >>--- On Mon, 3/14/11, Bill Bell <billnb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> See how Lucid Enterprise does it... A >>> bit differently. >>> >>> On 3/14/11 12:14 AM, "Kai Schlamp" <kai.schl...@googlemail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >Hi. >>> > >>> >There seems to be several options for implementing an >>> >autocomplete/autosuggestions feature with Solr. I am >>> trying to >>> >summarize those possibilities together with their >>> advantages and >>> >disadvantages. It would be really nice to read some of >>> your opinions. >>> > >>> >* Using N-Gram filter + text field query >>> >+ available in stable 1.4.x >>> >+ results can be boosted >>> >+ sorted by best matches >>> >- may return duplicate results >>> > >>> >* Facets >>> >+ available in stable 1.4.x >>> >+ no duplicate entries >>> >- sorted by count >>> >- may need an extra N-Gram field for infix queries >>> > >>> >* Terms >>> >+ available in stable 1.4.x >>> >+ infix query by using regex in 3.x >>> >- only prefix query in 1.4.x >>> >- regexp may be slow (just a guess) >>> > >>> >* Suggestions >>> >? Did not try that yet. Does it allow infix queries? >>> > >>> >* Field Collapsing >>> >+ no duplications >>> >- only available in 4.x branch >>> >? Does it work together with highlighting? That would >>> be a big plus. >>> > >>> >What are your experiences regarding >>> autocomplete/autosuggestion with >>> >Solr? Any additions, suggestions or corrections? What >>> do you prefer? >>> > >>> >Kai >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > -- Dr. med. Kai Schlamp Am Fort Elisabeth 17 55131 Mainz Germany Phone +49-177-7402778 Email: schl...@gmx.de
