How to use the Synonym filter to build advanced semantic transformations in your search to add more capabilities for your user. Learn how to use synonyms with Dismax or EDismax generating a semantic relevancy while boosting the right documents in your search to make it work better.
Solr adds Synonym capabilities from the scratch and it is one of its most widely used filters. This talk will develop further on what is a good strategy for synonyms and how to deploy it correctly in a relevancy scheme so that you don't end up bringing irrelevant results up front in page 1, which could be achieved with Solr in very different versions of the software, included the most recent one, 4.0.
The outline of the presentation will be: