Hi Erick, Thanks for the suggestion. Like I said, I'm an infant.
We tried synonyms both ways. sea biscuit => seabiscuit and seabiscuit => sea biscuit and didn't understand exactly how it worked. But I just checked the analysis tool, and it seems to work perfectly fine at index time. Now, I can happily discard my own filter and 4 days of work. I'm happy I got to know a few ways on how/when not to write a solr filter :) I tried the string "sea biscuit sea bird" with expand=false and the tokens i got were seabiscuit sea bird at 1,2 and 3 positions respectively. But at query time, when I enter the same term "sea biscuit sea bird", using edismax and qf, pf2, and pf3, the parsedQuery looks like this: +((text:sea) (text:biscuit) (text:sea) (text:bird)) ((text:\"biscuit sea\") (text:\"sea bird\")) ((text:\"seabiscuit sea\") (text:\"biscuit sea bird\"))" What I wanted instead was this "+((text:seabiscuit) (text:sea) (text:bird)) ((text:\"seabiscuit sea\") (text:\"sea bird\")) (text:\"seabiscuit sea bird\")" Looks like there isn't any other way than to pre-process query myself and create the compound word. What do you mean by "just query the raw string"? Am I still missing something? Parvesh Garg http://www.zettata.com (This time I did remove my phone number :) ) On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com>wrote: > Why did you reject using synonyms? You can have multi-word > synonyms just fine at index time, and at query time, since the > multiple words are already substituted in the index you don't > need to do the same substitution, just query the raw strings. > > I freely acknowledge you may have very good reasons for doing > this yourself, I'm just making sure you know what's already > there. > > See: > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#solr.SynonymFilterFactory > > Look particularly at the explanations for "sea biscuit" in that section. > > Best, > Erick > > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Parvesh Garg <parv...@zettata.com> wrote: > > > One more thing, Is there a way to remove my "accidentally sent phone > number > > in the signature" from the previous mail? aarrrggghhh > > >
