Hi,

This might have been answered elsewhere but I could not figure it out yet. I have a requirement to use synonyms as there are many short hand abbreviations the documents I index uses , example : PMR =>Project Management , etc. Additionally I also have a requirement in which I should be able to search with containing words, example searching for Manage should also return Management.

I am using Hibernate Search 3.1 with Solr 1.4.1 core ( This is my prod environment , so cant change it), would be very helpful if you could help in the following

1. For the above requirement above how do I do an Exact Phrase search? Example "Project Management" vs field1 :"Project" field 1:"Management"
2. Use synonyms with NGram

using a PhraseQuery? you can score matches higher when the order of terms is similar to the order defined in your query, and check the other options such as sloppyness.


You can use synonyms, or NGrams, or combine them. It seems you want to combine them, but the effect might not be what you expect; I'd suggest insted to try indexing the same field twice using two different analysers, so to write two different fields (example: description_synonyms, description_ngrams ). Use the @Fields annotation to list multiple fields.