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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by Jon Drukman <jd...@gmail.com> on 2008/11/08 00:18:35 UTC

Handling proper names

Is there any way to tell Solr that Stephen is the same as Steven and 
Steve?  Carl and Karl?  Bobby/Bob/Robert, and so on...

-jsd-

RE: Handling proper names

Posted by "Nguyen, Joe" <jn...@automotive.com>.

Use synonym.
Added these line to your ../conf/synonym.txt
Stephen,Steven,Steve
Bobby,Bob,Robert
...


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Subject: Handling proper names

Is there any way to tell Solr that Stephen is the same as Steven and 
Steve?  Carl and Karl?  Bobby/Bob/Robert, and so on...

-jsd-