Hi, Consider looking into synonyms and ngrams.
Otis -- Performance Monitoring - http://sematext.com/spm On Oct 8, 2012 11:21 AM, "Hågen Pihlstrøm Hasle" <haagenha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm quite new to Solr, I was recently asked to help out on a project where > the previous "Solr-person" quit quite suddenly. I've noticed that some of > our searches don't return the expected result, and I'm hoping you guys can > help me out. > > We've indexed a lot of names, and would like to search for a person in our > system using these names. We previously used Oracle Text for this, and we > experience that Solr is much faster. So far so good! :) But when we try > to use wildcards things start to to wrong. > > We're using Solr 3.4, and I see that some of our problems are solved in > 3.6. Ref SOLR-2438: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2438 > > But we would also like to be able to combine wildcards with fuzzy > searches, and wildcards with a phonetic filter. I don't see anything about > phonetic filters in SOLR-2438 or SOLR-2921. ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2921) > Is it possible to make the phonetic filters MultiTermAware? > > Regarding fuzzy queries, in Oracle Text I can search for "chr%" ("chr*" in > Solr..) and find both christian and kristian. As far as I understand, this > is not possible in Solr, WildcardQuery and FuzzyQuery cannot be combined. > Is this correct, or have I misunderstood anything? Are there any > workarounds or filter-combinations I can use to achieve the same result? > I've seen people suggest using a boolean query to combine the two, but I > don't really see how that would solve my "chr*"-problem. > > As I mentioned earlier I'm quite new to this, so I apologize if what I'm > asking about only shows my ignorance.. > > > Regards, Hågen
