Hi Lucene users, I recently came across SynonymQuery and found out that it only supports single-term synonyms (since it accepts a list of Term which will be considered as synonyms). We have some multi-term synonyms like "internet device" <-> "wifi router" or "dns" <-> "domain name service". Am I right that I need to use something like a BooleanQuery for these cases?
I have 2 other follow-up questions: - Is SynonymQuery has any advantage over BooleanQuery? Or is it only different in how scores are computed? As I understand SynonymWeight will consider all terms as exactly the same while BooleanQuery will favor the documents with more matched terms. - Is it worth it to support multi-term synonyms in SynonymQuery? My feeling is that it's better to just use BooleanQuery in those cases, since to support multi-term synonyms it needs to accept a list of Query, which would make it behave like a BooleanQuery. Also how scoring work with multi-term is another problem. Thanks & Regards!
