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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com> on 2009/11/11 17:51:26 UTC
Re: NGram query failing
That's actually easy to explain/understand.
If the min n-gram size is 3, a query term with just 2 characters will ever match any terms that originally had > 2 characters because longer terms will never get tokenized into terms below 3-character tokens.
Take the term: house
house => hou ous use
If you search term is "ho", it will never match the above, as there is no term "ho" in there.
Otis
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> From: Charlie Jackson <Ch...@cision.com>
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 4:32:33 PM
> Subject: RE: NGram query failing
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> Well, I fixed my own problem in the end. For the record, this is the
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> I could have left it a trigram but went with a bigram because with this
> setup, I can get queries to properly hit as long as the min/max gram
> size is met. In other words, for any queries two or more characters
> long, this works for me. Less than two characters and it fails.
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> I don't know exactly why that is, but I'll take it anyway!
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> - Charlie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charlie Jackson [mailto:Charlie.Jackson@cision.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 10:00 AM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: NGram query failing
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> I have a requirement to be able to find hits within words in a free-form
> id field. The field can have any type of alphanumeric data - it's as
> likely it will be something like "123456" as it is to be "SUN-123-ABC".
> I thought of using NGrams to accomplish the task, but I'm having a
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> minGramSize="1" maxGramSize="3"/>
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> After indexing a field like this, the analysis page indicates my queries
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> query value of "45" it shows hits in several places, which is what I
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> However, when I actually query the field with something like "45" I get
> no hits back. Looking at the debugQuery output, it looks like it's
> taking my analyzed query text and putting it into a phrase query. So,
> for a query of "45" it turns into a phrase query of :"4 5 45"
> which then doesn't hit on anything in my index.
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> What am I missing to make this work?
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> - Charlie