How to i force Solr to return me suggestions or close matches even on correctly spelled words?
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A:
Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible. The Lucene SpellChecker class (which is used by Solr), won't return suggestions if the word has a high frequency in your index. If you activate spellcheck.onlyMorePopular, Lucene will return suggestions that have a frequency >= than the frequency of the original word. So if a word is correctly spelled but is rare, you should receive suggestions. But for common words, you won't get anything.
UPDATE
I just stumble upon the FileBasedSpellChecker which does not use the frequency of the words of the query. I have never tried it. To use it, you will have to maintain a list of words in a flat file to build the dictionary.
Pascal Dimassimo
2010-09-28 15:59:12
You are right for the first option. Second option might well be a testable case.
Wajih
2010-09-28 18:57:47