I'm wondering if you should be using these acronyms at index time, not
search time. It will make your index bigger and you'll have to re-index
to add new synonyms (as they may apply to old documents) but this could
be an occasional task, and in the meantime you could use query-time
synonyms for the new ones.
Maintaining 9000 synonyms in Solr's synonyms.txt file seems unweildy to me.
Cheers
Charlie
On 15/01/2021 09:48, Shaun Campbell wrote:
I have a medical journals search application and I've a list of some 9,000
acronyms like this:
MSNQ=>MSNQ Multiple Sclerosis Neuropsychological Screening Questionnaire
SRN=>SRN Stroke Research Network
IGBP=>IGBP isolated gastric bypass
TOMADO=>TOMADO Trial of Oral Mandibular Advancement Devices for Obstructive
sleep apnoea–hypopnoea
SRM=>SRM standardised response mean
SRT=>SRT substrate reduction therapy
SRS=>SRS Sexual Rating Scale
SRU=>SRU stroke rehabilitation unit
T2w=>T2w T2-weighted
Ab-P=>Ab-P Aberdeen participation restriction subscale
MSOA=>MSOA middle-layer super output area
SSA=>SSA site-specific assessment
SSC=>SSC Study Steering Committee
SSB=>SSB short-stretch bandage
SSE=>SSE sum squared error
SSD=>SSD social services department
NVPI=>NVPI Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy Instrument
I tried to put them in a synonyms file, either just with a comma between,
or with an arrow in between and the acronym repeated on the right like
above, and no matter what I try I'm getting really strange search results.
It's like words in one acronym are matching with the same word in another
acronym and then searching with that acronym which is completely unrelated.
I don't think Solr can handle this, but does anyone know of any crafty
tricks in Solr to handle this situation where I can either search by the
acronym or by the text?
Shaun
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