Solr - synonyms containing multiple words

Question

Quick question, I don\'t know how to deal with synonyms which contains a space! I have the following config:

The SOLR config file

Answer 1

You are doing explicit mapping with =>.

The Solr documentation says

Explicit mappings match any token sequence on the LHS of "=>" and replace with all alternatives on the RHS. These types of mappings ignore the expand parameter in the schema.

So I am guessing that if you search for NYC you get nothing back, since it got replaced with New York at index time.

Instead, can you try declaring them as equivalent synonyms? i.e. like NYC, New York instead of NYC => New York.

Then I believe you can search for either of them and the result will be the same.