In this post we’ll cover two additional synonyms scenarios and we’ll try to summarise all previous tips in a coincise form. Following the approach of the previous posts [1] [2] [3], everything can be applied both to Apache Solr and Elasticsearch. Preconditions Synonyms and stopwords at query time: this is not just a “theoretical” constraint; imagine if you…
What are “Invisible Queries”? This is an extract of an article [1] on Lucidworks.com, by Grant Ingersoll, talking about invisible queries: “It is often necessary in many applications to execute more than one query for any given user query. For instance, in applications that require very high precision (only good results, forgoing marginal results), the…