Hi, Yes that is pretty obvious that I would have to index Tom, but I think you missed the point. I don't have a list of names with their nick names, and this is pretty common: Mike being Michael, Richard being Rich or Dick, William could be Bill or Will, etc. I thought I would check if there was a canonical way of doing this before building my own list from common sir names. Thanks for your time.
Sincerely, Khawaja Shams On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Ganesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to query for Tom, then you need to index the value Tom. Create > one more field as Alias or add alias name as part of name field. > > Regards > Ganesh > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Khawaja Shams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <java-user@lucene.apache.org> > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:46 AM > Subject: Indexing Names in Lucene -- Thomas = Tom, etc > > > > Hello, I am indexing documents with a field that contains the first and >> last name of people. It is working wonderfully with a slight issue: if >> Thomas is indexed for a document, I would like searches for Tom to match >> that document. I am sure this is a common problem that many of you must >> have >> addressed, but I was unable to find anything in the archives or on Google. >> Thanks in advance for the guidance. >> >> >> Regards, >> Khawaja Shams >> >> > Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
