I believe these lists exists out on the Internet, just google for
something like "most common first names" or "common
nicknames" (yields: http://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/~trobb/nicklist.html
for instance)
If you want to dig deeper, you might look into named entity
recognition research, and a
Hi, Yes that is pretty obvious that I would have to index Tom, but I think
you missed the point. I don't have a list of names with their nick names,
and this is pretty common: Mike being Michael, Richard being Rich or Dick,
William could be Bill or Will, etc. I thought I would check if there was
If you want to query for Tom, then you need to index the value Tom. Create
one more field as Alias or add alias name as part of name field.
Regards
Ganesh
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From: "Khawaja Shams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:46 AM
Subject: Indexing
Hi
To get from Thomas to Tom you'll need to use synonyms. For Thom you
would have been able to use prefixes or wild cards.
If you google for lucene synonyms you'll find loads of stuff. Also, I
believe that Solr has built in support for synonyms.
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Ian.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:16 AM, Khaw
