https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-3233
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Arun Atreya <my.2.pai...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to know the best way to load a huge synonym list into Solr. > > I would like to do concept indexing (a.k.a category indexing) with Solr. For > example, I want to be able to index all cities and be able to search for all > of them using a special keyword, say 'CONCEPTcity', where 'CONCEPTcity' will > match anything that IS-A city, as specified in the index_synonyms.txt file. I > believe the best way to do this is via the SynonymFilterFactory and do > index-time synonym expansion. Or is there a better alternative? > > I would still like to keep the original city names and do not want to > replace them with 'CONCEPTcity', so if someone searches for 'Lake', the city > name 'Salt Lake City' still matches. Also, obviously, I do not want two > different city names to be synonyms of each other. > > Is the correct way to specify the index_synonyms.txt file like this? > > ----------------------------------------------------- > CONCEPTcity, Salt Lake City > CONCEPTcity, New York > CONCEPTcity, San Jose > . > . > . > ----------------------------------------------------- > > and then keep > expand="true" > for SynonymFilterFactory? > > I tried to load a synonym file with 10K entries like this, and Solr/Jetty > took a few seconds to start, but if I try to load a synonym file with 1M+ > entries, then it is taking a long time. What is the best way to do this? > > Thanks, > Arun. > -- lucidimagination.com
