Ok thanks you´re right. But the thing is my users will often search for expressions like: "Harr" or "har" etc..
So I thought I automatically add the wildcard "*" to every request. If that too gets me into trouble "Harr*"=>no result "harry*"=>no result What should I do? Otis Gospodnetic wrote: > > I believe it's because wildcard queries are not stemmed. During indexing > "harry" probably got stemmed to "harr", so now "harry*" doesn't match, > because there is no "harry" token in that string, only "harr". Why > wildcard queries are not analyzed is described in the Lucene FAQ on the > Lucene Wiki. > > You could also try searching for kunde:Harr* for example (not the > upper-case Harr). I bet it won't result in a hit for the same reason - at > index time you probably lower-case tokens with LowerCaseFilter(Factory), > and if you search for Harr*, the lower-casing won't happen because the > query string with the wildcard character isn't analyzed. > > Otis > -- > Sematext is hiring -- http://sematext.com/about/jobs.html?mls > Lucene, Solr, Nutch, Katta, Hadoop, HBase, UIMA, NLP, NER, IR > > > > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: gateway0 <reiterwo...@yahoo.de> >> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org >> Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2009 7:30:19 PM >> Subject: Solr failing on "y" charakter in string? >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I have the following setting: >> schema.xml: >> "" >> the "text" field-type was updated with the "preserveOriginal=1" option in >> the schema >> >> I have the following string indexd in the field "kunde" >> "Harry Heim KG" >> >> Now when I search for "kunde:harry*" it gives me an empty result. >> >> When I search for "kunde:harry" I get the right result. Also >> "kunde:harr*" >> works just fine. >> >> The strange thing is that with every other string (for example >> "kunde:heim*") I will get the right result. >> >> So why not on "harry*" with an "y*" at the end? >> >> kind regards, S. >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://www.nabble.com/Solr-failing-on-%22y%22-charakter-in-string--tp24783211p24783211.html >> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Solr-failing-on-%22y%22-charakter-in-string--tp24783211p24789070.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
