On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 10:25 PM, Michael Sokolov <[email protected]> wrote:
> > In general I’d avoid index-time synonyms in lucene because synonyms can > create graphs (eg if a single term gets expanded to several terms), and we > can’t index graphs correctly. > > I wonder what it would take to address this. I guess the blast radius of > adding a token "width" could be pretty large. Is there an issue or any past > discussion about that? > I think some ideas have been mentioned on past issues, e.g. using payloads to hold the position length should be workable (with a custom Query) without any source code changes to Lucene, but I don't know of anyone building a prototype. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com
