Improvements to SpellCheckComponent Collate functionality
---------------------------------------------------------

                 Key: SOLR-2010
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-2010
             Project: Solr
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: clients - java, spellchecker
    Affects Versions: 1.4.1
         Environment: Tested against trunk revision 966633
            Reporter: James Dyer
            Priority: Minor


Improvements to SpellCheckComponent Collate functionality

Our project requires a better Spell Check Collator.  I'm contributing this as a 
patch to get suggestions for improvements and in case there is a broader need 
for these features.

1. Only return collations that are guaranteed to result in hits if re-queried 
(applying original fq params also).  This is especially helpful when there is 
more than one correction per query.  The 1.4 behavior does not verify that a 
particular combination will actually return hits.
2. Provide the option to get multiple collation suggestions
3. Provide extended collation results including the # of hits re-querying will 
return and a breakdown of each misspelled word and its correction.

This patch is similar to what is described in SOLR-507 item #1.  Also, this 
patch provides a viable workaround for the problem discussed in SOLR-1074.  A 
dictionary could be created that combines the terms from the multiple fields.  
The collator then would prune out any spurious suggestions this would cause.

This patch adds the following spellcheck parameters:

1. spellcheck.maxCollationTries - maximum # of collation possibilities to try 
before giving up.  Lower values ensure better performance.  Higher values may 
be necessary to find a collation that can return results.  Default is 0, which 
maintains backwards-compatible behavior (do not check collations).

2. spellcheck.maxCollations - maximum # of collations to return.  Default is 1, 
which maintains backwards-compatible behavior.

3. spellcheck.collateExtendedResult - if true, returns an expanded response 
format detailing collations found.  default is false, which maintains 
backwards-compatible behavior.  When true, output is like this (in context):

<lst name="spellcheck">
        <lst name="suggestions">
                <lst name="hopq">
                        <int name="numFound">94</int>
                        <int name="startOffset">7</int>
                        <int name="endOffset">11</int>
                        <arr name="suggestion">
                                <str>hope</str>
                                <str>how</str>
                                <str>hope</str>
                                <str>chops</str>
                                <str>hoped</str>
                                etc
                        </arr>
                <lst name="faill">
                        <int name="numFound">100</int>
                        <int name="startOffset">16</int>
                        <int name="endOffset">21</int>
                        <arr name="suggestion">
                                <str>fall</str>
                                <str>fails</str>
                                <str>fail</str>
                                <str>fill</str>
                                <str>faith</str>
                                <str>all</str>
                                etc
                        </arr>
                </lst>
                <lst name="collation">
                        <str name="collationQuery">Title:(how AND fails)</str>
                        <int name="hits">2</int>
                        <lst name="misspellingsAndCorrections">
                                <str name="hopq">how</str>
                                <str name="faill">fails</str>
                        </lst>
                </lst>
                <lst name="collation">
                        <str name="collationQuery">Title:(hope AND faith)</str>
                        <int name="hits">2</int>
                        <lst name="misspellingsAndCorrections">
                                <str name="hopq">hope</str>
                                <str name="faill">faith</str>
                        </lst>
                </lst>
                <lst name="collation">
                        <str name="collationQuery">Title:(chops AND all)</str>
                        <int name="hits">1</int>
                        <lst name="misspellingsAndCorrections">
                                <str name="hopq">chops</str>
                                <str name="faill">all</str>
                        </lst>
                </lst>
        </lst>
</lst>

In addition, SOLRJ is updated to include 
SpellCheckResponse.getCollatedResults(), which will return the expanded 
Collation format.  getCollatedResult(), which returns a single String, is 
retained for backwards-compatibility.  Other APIs were not changed but will 
still work provided that spellcheck.collateExtendedResult is false.

This likely will not return valid results if using Shards.  Rather, a more 
robust interaction with the index would be necessary than what exists in 
SpellCheckCollator.collate().

-- 
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.


---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org

Reply via email to