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Nolan Lawson edited comment on SOLR-4381 at 3/23/13 6:26 PM:
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Hey [~otis]:

To answer your first question, I don't believe that time has come yet.  I still 
have a lot of open issues to fix, although I'm slowly whittling them down.

The most important one, I believe, is to use composition instead of 
subclassing, so that I can support the DisMax and Lucene query parsers instead 
of just EDisMax.  After that I need to seriously simplify the XML configuration.

As for your second question, I'm testing out Solr 4.2 as we speak.  If it 
works, I'll modify the README; otherwise I'll add a GitHub issue.
                
      was (Author: nolanlawson):
    Hey [~otis]:

To answer your first question, I don't believe that time as come yet.  I still 
have a lot of open issues to fix, although I'm slowly whittling them down.

The most important one, I believe, is to use composition instead of 
subclassing, so that I can support the DisMax and Lucene query parsers instead 
of just EDisMax.  After that I need to seriously simplify the XML configuration.

As for your second question, I'm testing out Solr 4.2 as we speak.  If it 
works, I'll modify the README; otherwise I'll add a GitHub issue.
                  
> Query-time multi-word synonym expansion
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SOLR-4381
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-4381
>             Project: Solr
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: query parsers
>            Reporter: Nolan Lawson
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: multi-word, queryparser, synonyms
>             Fix For: 4.3
>
>         Attachments: SOLR-4381-2.patch, SOLR-4381.patch
>
>
> This is an issue that seems to come up perennially.
> The [Solr 
> docs|http://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#solr.SynonymFilterFactory]
>  caution that index-time synonym expansion should be preferred to query-time 
> synonym expansion, due to the way multi-word synonyms are treated and how IDF 
> values can be boosted artificially. But query-time expansion should have huge 
> benefits, given that changes to the synonyms don't require re-indexing, the 
> index size stays the same, and the IDF values for the documents don't get 
> permanently altered.
> The proposed solution is to move the synonym expansion logic from the 
> analysis chain (either query- or index-type) and into a new QueryParser.  See 
> the attached patch for an implementation.
> The core Lucene functionality is untouched.  Instead, the EDismaxQParser is 
> extended, and synonym expansion is done on-the-fly.  Queries are parsed into 
> a lattice (i.e. all possible synonym combinations), while individual 
> components of the query are still handled by the EDismaxQParser itself.
> It's not an ideal solution by any stretch. But it's nice and self-contained, 
> so it invites experimentation and improvement.  And I think it fits in well 
> with the merry band of misfit query parsers, like {{func}} and {{frange}}.
> More details about this solution can be found in [this blog 
> post|http://nolanlawson.com/2012/10/31/better-synonym-handling-in-solr/] and 
> [the Github page for the 
> code|https://github.com/healthonnet/hon-lucene-synonyms].
> At the risk of tooting my own horn, I also think this patch sufficiently 
> fixes SOLR-3390 (highlighting problems with multi-word synonyms) and 
> LUCENE-4499 (better support for multi-word synonyms).

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