Hi, probably this may help you start:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1297 Dmitry On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Gau <gauravshe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is the usecase: > I am using synonym expansion at query time to get results. this is > essentially a name search, so a search for Jim may be expanded at query > time > for James, Jung, Jimmy, etc. > > So ranking fields like TF, IDF, Norms do not mean anything to me. I just > reset them to zero. so all the results which I get have the same rank. I > have used a copy field to boost the weights of exact match, so Jim would be > boosted to the top. > > However I want the other results like Jimmy, Jung, James to be sorted by > Levenstein Distance with respect to word Jim (the original query). The > number of results returned are quite large. So a genereal strdist sort > takes > 6-7 seconds. Is there any other option than applying a sort= in the query > to > achieve the same functionality? Any particular way to index the data to > achieve the same result? any idea to boost the performance and get the > intended functionality? > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Sorting-performance-tp3987633.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- Regards, Dmitry Kan
