What does your synonyms file look like? Because this breaks things up fine, you get individual tokens etc. it seems. If your synonyms file maps saint to st, and fort to ft (or vice-versa) it should work.
If this is off base, could you post the synonyms you expect to be applied? Best, Erick On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:52 PM, solr-user <solr-u...@hotmail.com> wrote: > yes, and I can see that (as expected) per the field type: > > 1. the indexed value is lowercased > 2. stripped of non-alpha characters > 3. multiple consecutive whitespace is removed > 4. trimmed > 5. goes thru the SynonymFilterFactory where: > > a. the indexed value of "Marina/Former Fort Ord" is "marina former fort ord" > b. the search value of "Marina/Former Ft Ord" is "marina former ft ord" > > This I already knew. My question wasn't "why" they dont match, it is: how > do I get search for "fort st john" to match "ft saint john". ie is there a > way to index/search that would allow the search to match. > > the SynonymFilterFactory during indexing does not create a matching term for > "marina former ft ord", which I think it would do if the indexed value was a > word instead of a phrase (ie "fort" vs "Marina/Former Fort Ord") > > (note that my terms/understanding of how this works may be incorrect, hence > my request for assistance/understanding) > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/how-do-I-get-search-for-fort-st-john-to-match-ft-saint-john-tp4127231p4127764.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
