Re: Searching partial names using Lucene

Have you tried stemming? Simpler and available in core lucene. Look at PorterStemFilter or use your favourite search engine to find more info and options. If instead you go the synonym route, there is sample code in Lucene in Action and a wordnet contrib module you might find useful. -- Ian.

Re: Searching partial names using Lucene

Thanks for the detailed response sujit. UIMA, especially looks like an interesting option. On 3/24/11 3:57 PM, Sujit Pal sujit@comcast.net wrote: I don't know if there is already an analyzer available for this, but you could use GATE or UIMA for Named Entity Extraction against names and

Re: Searching partial names using Lucene

On 3/25/11 5:57 AM, Ian Lea ian@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried stemming? Simpler and available in core lucene. Look at PorterStemFilter or use your favourite search engine to find more info and options. Ian, I did try PorterStemFilter and couldn't get the result I wanted. (Dan ==

Searching partial names using Lucene

Hi, I would like to build a search system where a search for Dan would also search for Daniel and a search for Will, William . Any ideas on how to go about implementing that? I can think of writing a custom Analyzer that would map these partial tokens to their full firstname or lastnames. But

Re: Searching partial names using Lucene

I don't know if there is already an analyzer available for this, but you could use GATE or UIMA for Named Entity Extraction against names and expand the query to include the extra names that are used synonymously. You could do this outside Lucene or inline using a custom Lucene tokenizer that