Roman, As a developer, I understand where you are coming from. My issue is that I specialize in .NET, haven't done java dev in over 10 years. As an organization we're new to solr (coming from endeca) and we're looking to use it more across the organization, so for us, we are looking to do the classic time/payoff justification for most features that are causing a bit of friction. I have seen custom query parsers that are out there that seem like they will do what we're looking to do, but I worry that they might fix a custom case and not necessarily work for us.
Also, Roman, are you suggesting that I can have an indexed document titled "hubble telescope" and as long as I separate multi-word synonyms with the null character \0 in the synonyms.txt file the query expansion will just work? if so, that would suffice for our needs.. can you elaborate or will the query parser still foil the system. I ask because I've seen instances where I can use the admin analysis tool against a custom field type to expand a multi-word synonym where it appears it's expanding the terms properly but when I run a search against it using the actual handler, it doesn't behave the same way and the debugQuery shows that indeed it split my term and did not expand it. Jack, Is there a link where I can read more about the LucidWorks search parser and how we can perchance tie into that so I can test to see if it yields better results? Thanks again for the help and suggestions. As an organization, we've learned much of solr since we started in 4.1 (especially with the cloud). The devs are doing phenomenal work and my query is really meant more as confirmation that I'm taking the correct approach than to beg for a specific feature :) --Dave -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Searching-w-explicit-Multi-Word-Synonym-Expansion-tp4078469p4078675.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
