Thanks. It isn't necessarily the need to match 'dick' to 'robert' but to search for: 'name surname' name, surname' 'surname name' 'surname, name'
And nothing else, I don't need to worry about nick names or abbreviations of a name, just the above variations. I think I might use text_ws. On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Uwe Reh <r...@hebis.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > in our index ob bibliographic metadata, we see the need for at least tree > fields: > - name_facet: String as type, because the facet should should represent > the original inverted format from our data. > - name: TextField for searching. This field is heavily analyzed to match > different orders, to match synonyms, phonetic similarity, German umlauts > and other European stuff. > - name_lc: TextField. This field is just mapped to lower case. It's used > to boost docs with the same style of writing like the users input. > > Uwe > > Am 08.01.2013 15:30, schrieb Michael Jones: > > Hi, >> >> What would be the best fieldtype for a persons name? at the moment I'm >> using text_general but, if I search for bob smith, some results I get back >> might be rob thomas. In that it's matched 'ob'. >> >> But I only really want results that are either >> >> 'bob smith' >> 'bob, smith' >> 'smith, bob' >> 'smith bob' >> >> Thanks >> >> >
