[jira] [Commented] (LUCENE-5214) Add new FreeTextSuggester, to handle "long tail" suggestions

["Robert Muir (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Robert Muir commented on LUCENE-5214:
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+1

> Add new FreeTextSuggester, to handle "long tail" suggestions
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LUCENE-5214
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-5214
>             Project: Lucene - Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: modules/spellchecker
>            Reporter: Michael McCandless
>            Assignee: Michael McCandless
>             Fix For: 5.0, 4.6
>
>         Attachments: LUCENE-5214.patch, LUCENE-5214.patch
>
>
> The current suggesters are all based on a finite space of possible
> suggestions, i.e. the ones they were built on, so they can only
> suggest a full suggestion from that space.
> This means if the current query goes outside of that space then no
> suggestions will be found.
> The goal of FreeTextSuggester is to address this, by giving
> predictions based on an ngram language model, i.e. using the last few
> tokens from the user's query to predict likely following token.
> I got the idea from this blog post about Google's suggest:
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/more-predictions-in-autocomplete.html
> This is very much still a work in progress, but it seems to be
> working.  I've tested it on the AOL query logs, using an interactive
> tool from luceneutil to show the suggestions, and it seems to work well.
> It's fun to use that tool to explore the word associations...
> I don't think this suggester would be used standalone; rather, I think
> it'd be a fallback for times when the primary suggester fails to find
> anything.  You can see this behavior on google.com, if you type "the
> fast and the ", you see entire queries being suggested, but then if
> the next word you type is "burning" then suddenly you see the
> suggestions are only based on the last word, not the entire query.
> It uses ShingleFilter under-the-hood to generate the token ngrams;
> once LUCENE-5180 is in it will be able to properly handle a user query
> that ends with stop-words (e.g. "wizard of "), and then stores the
> ngrams in an FST.



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