I created an issue and have added some notes https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1316
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Jason Rutherglen<jason.rutherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here's a good article on Ternary Trees: http://www.ddj.com/windows/184410528 > > I looked at the one in Lucene, I don't understand why the find method > only returns a char/int? > > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Robert Petersen<rober...@buy.com> wrote: >> Simple minded autosuggest can just not tokenize the phrases at all and >> so the wildcards just complete whatever the user has typed so far >> including spaces. Upon encountering a space though, autosuggest should >> wait to make more suggestions until the user has typed at least a couple >> of letters of the next word. That is the way I did it last time using a >> different search engine. It'd sure be kewl if this became a core >> feature of solr! >> >> I like the idea of the tree approach, sounds much faster. The root is >> the least letters to start suggestions and the leaves are the full >> phrases? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jason Rutherglen [mailto:jason.rutherg...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 12:09 PM >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Subject: Re: search suggest >> >> Autosuggest is something that would be very useful to build into >> Solr as many search projects require it. >> >> I'd recommend indexing relevant terms/phrases into a Ternary >> Search Tree which is compact and performant. Using a wildcard >> query will likely not be as fast as a Ternary Tree, and I'm not >> sure how phrases would be handled? >> >> http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/api/org/apache/lucene/analysi >> >> It would be good to separate out the TernaryTree from >> analysis/compound and into Lucene core, or into it's own contrib. >> >> Also see http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-625 which >> improves relevancy using click through rates. >> >> I'll open an issue in Solr to get this one going. >> >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Robert Petersen<rober...@buy.com> >> wrote: >>> To do a proper search suggest feature you have to index all the >> queries >>> your system gets and search it with wildcards for matches on what the >>> user has typed so far for each user keystroke in the search box... >>> Usually with some timer logic to wait for a small hesitation in their >>> typing. >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Jack Bates [mailto:ms...@freezone.co.uk] >>> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 10:54 AM >>> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >>> Subject: search suggest >>> >>> how can i use solr to make search suggestions? i'm thinking >> google-style >>> suggestions, which suggests more refined queries - vs. freebase-style >>> suggestions, which suggests top hits. >>> >>> i've been looking at the query params, >>> http://wiki.apache.org/solr/StandardRequestHandler >>> >>> - and searching for "solr suggest" - but haven't figured out how to >> get >>> search suggestions from solr >>> >> >