Hi Mitu, Though your approach would work I'd suggest you build a custom analyzer instead. Perhaps that'd be a bettter approach.
-- Anshum Gupta Naukri Labs! http://ai-cafe.blogspot.com The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw............ On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:14 AM, mitu2009 <musicfrea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > What is the best way to handle synonyms (phrases) using Lucene? Especially, > when I need to execute queries like :a OR b OR c NOT d > > How about adding a new field called "synonyms" to each document while > indexing? This field's value would have a list of all synonyms. It would be > added to a document only when that document has any of the synonyms. > > I would then execute an "OR" search query which would look for search > keyword in this field alongwith other fields. > > Can this approach work well for any kind of query? > > Please suggest. > > Thanks. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Handling-synonyms-using-Lucene-tp24875308p24875308.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
