Prefix query does not perform well when you have a lot of terms that match. We've implanted search box term suggestion using a custom analyzer and standard queries. Here's a quick overview of what we did to cover matching from the beginning of the text.
First you'll need a list of the terms/phrases you want available in the suggested terms. You can do this by walking over the terms in your index, or from the original data source used to build the index. Now you'll need a custom analyzer to create the tokens that will be in the index. We took a different approach than n-grams that tokenizes text like this: Original Term: "Michael" Tokens: "m", "mi", "mic", "mich", "micha", "michae", "michael" You can tokenize to include spaces as well... Original Term: "Michael Garski" Tokens: "m", "mi", "mic", "mich", "micha", "michae", "michael", "michael ", "michael g", etc... Tokenizing the text in this way allows you to use a standard TermQuery as opposed to a PrefixQuery and since the search is on only a single term, it is quite fast. The type ahead triggers a search via AJAX as the user types in the search box. The queries are not submitted until three characters are typed to limit the number of documents that are matched, which improves query performance. As the contents of the suggest index do not change frequently we cache results to further improve performance. Michael -----Original Message----- From: Glyn Darkin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 9:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Suggest Search Terms Hi Heath, I have implement this using a prefix query against a particular field. Good luck. Glyn 2010/1/7 Heath Aldrich <[email protected]>: > Hello all... > > > > I'm looking for some guidance on how to get suggested search terms going from > the lucene.net perspective. > > I have seen a few concepts using SOLR, but I'm trying to figure out how to > make it happen using lucene. > > > > I would like to be able to suggest the rest of a search term, much as Google > does when searching. I can figure the AJAX part of displaying the results no > problem, but I really don't know how to make lucene provide the results that > I should be displaying. > > > > I "think" it is done using n-grams, but that's really about as far as I have > found thus far. > > > > Any guidance is appreciated... > > > > Thanks. > > Heath Aldrich > > -- Glyn Darkin Darkin Systems Ltd Mob: 07961815649 Fax: 08717145065 Web: www.darkinsystems.com Company No: 6173001 VAT No: 906350835
