Or for names that are more involved, you can use special tokenizer/filter chain and index different variants of the name into one index
example: https://github.com/romanchyla/montysolr/blob/solr-trunk/contrib/adsabs/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/synonym/AuthorSynonymFilter.java roman On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Alireza Salimi <alireza.sal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ahmet, > > Thanks for the reply, Yes, actually after I posted the first question, > I found that edismax is very helpful in this use case. There is another > problem which is about hyphens in the search query. > > I guess I need to post it in another email. > > Thank you very much > > On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:35 AM, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> > So here is the problem, I have a requirement to implement >> > search by a >> > person name. >> > Names consist of >> > - first name >> > - middle name >> > - last name >> > - nickname >> > >> > there is a list of synonyms which should be applied just for >> > first name and >> > middle name. >> > >> > In search, all fields should be searched for the search >> > keyword. That's why >> > I thought >> > maybe having an aggregate field - named 'name' - which keeps >> > all fields - by >> > copyField tag - can be used for search. >> > >> > The problem is: how can I apply synonyms for first names and >> > middle names, >> > when I >> > want to copy them into 'name' field? >> > >> > If you know of any link which is for using Solr to search >> > for names, >> > I would appreciate if you let me know. >> >> There is a flexible approach when you want to search over multiple fields >> having different field types. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/ExtendedDisMax >> You just specify the list of fields by qf parameter. >> >> &defType=edismax&qf=firstName^1.2 middleName lastName^1.5 nickname >> > > > > -- > Alireza Salimi > Java EE Developer
