On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Eric Wilson <wilson.eri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to use the suggester for auto-completion with Solr 4. I have > followed the example configuration for phrase suggestions at the bottom of > this wiki page: > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/Suggester<https://mail.manta.com/owa/redir.aspx?C=a570b5bb74f64f4fb810ba260e304ec5&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwiki.apache.org%2fsolr%2fSuggester> > > This shows how to use a text file with the following text for phrase > suggestions: > > # simple auto-suggest phrase dictionary for testing > # note this uses tabs as separator! > the first phrase 1.0 > the second phrase 2.0 > testing 1234 3.0 > foo 5.0 > the fifth phrase 2.0 > the final phrase 4.0 > > This seems to be working in the expected way. If I query for "the f" I > receive the following suggestions: > > <str>the final phrase</str> > <str>the fifth phrase</str> > <str>the first phrase</str> > > I would like to deal with the case where the user is interested in "the > foo". When "the fo" is entered, there will be no suggestions. Is it > possible to provide both the phrase matches, and the matches for individual > words, so that when the user entered text is no longer part of any actual > phrase, there are still suggestions to be made for the final word? >
Is it really the case that you want matches for individual words, or just to handle e.g. the stopwords case like 'the fo' -> foo ? the latter can be done with analyzingsuggester (configure a stopfilter on the analyzer).