Hi Doug, Sounds very interesting; would you mind sharing some details of how exactly you did this? What request handler did you use etc?
Many thanks, Oliver On 11 October 2011 17:37, Doug McKenzie <doug.mcken...@firebox.com> wrote: > I've just done something similar and rather than using the Spellchecker went > for NEdgeGramFilters instead for the suggestions. Worth looking into imo > > > On 11/10/2011 16:13, Oliver Beattie wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm sure this is something that's probably been covered before, and I >> shouldn't need to ask. But anyway. I'm trying to build an autosuggest >> with org.apache.solr.spelling.suggest.Suggester >> >> The content being searched is music artist names, so I need to be able >> to deal with suggesting things like "Katy Perry" if the user types >> "Katy Pe" (sorry, couldn't think of a more tasteful example off the >> cuff). I've tried a few things, but so far none give satisfactory >> results. Here's my current configuration: >> >> <fieldType name="autosuggestString" class="solr.TextField" >> omitNorms="true"> >> <analyzer type="index"> >> <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/> >> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> >> <filter class="solr.TrimFilterFactory"/> >> </analyzer> >> </fieldType> >> >> …for which I have a copyField called suggestionArtist. In my >> solrconfig.xml I have: >> >> <searchComponent name="autosuggester" class="solr.SpellCheckComponent"> >> <lst name="spellchecker"> >> <str name="name">autosuggester</str> >> <str >> name="classname">org.apache.solr.spelling.suggest.Suggester</str> >> <str >> name="lookupImpl">org.apache.solr.spelling.suggest.fst.FSTLookup</str> >> <str name="field">suggestionArtist</str> >> <float name="threshold">0.0005</float> >> <str name="buildOnCommit">true</str> >> </lst> >> </searchComponent> >> <requestHandler name="/suggest" class="solr.SearchHandler"> >> <lst name="defaults"> >> <str name="spellcheck">true</str> >> <str name="spellcheck.dictionary">autosuggester</str> >> <str name="spellcheck.onlyMorePopular">false</str> >> <str name="spellcheck.count">5</str> >> <str name="spellcheck.collate">true</str> >> </lst> >> <arr name="components"> >> <str>autosuggester</str> >> </arr> >> </requestHandler> >> >> If anyone could give me any pointers, I'd be really grateful. >> >> —Oliver >