I am using Apache Solr 3.6.
I have been playing around with the idea of providing a "similar" search
in the same way Google provides a link against some results with the
ability to search for pages similar to the current result: E.g.
related:lucene.apache.org/solr/ apache solr
One method I tried was to use MoreLikeThis on my title field to generate
a list of results:
?q=experiment&fl=key,id,title&fq=view:item&bf=title^100
dc.description.abstract_sm^50&mlt=true&mlt.fl=title
which gives me moreLikeThis results. If an item has a matching
moreLikeThis result with numFound not equal to zero I can go ahead and
link to a new query using my /mlt request handler, using a unique item
key and the keyword to build the query:
q=key:com_jspace.item.96 AND
experiment&fl=title&mlt.fl=title&start=0&rows=10&mlt.interestingTerms=details
This works well, providing me with paging, etc but one downside is the
inability to highlight results with the keyword "experiment".
It is my understanding that highlighting is not available as part of the
mlt request handler so I'm wondering if there is another way to generate
my search results for items related to another item? Or perhaps I'm
approaching this all wrong.
Any direction, even "you can't do that" much appreciated.
Cheers
Hayden
