Improving synonyms and overall search experience

Can this be made available at https://nuget.episerver.com/ ?

I have tried (both including the source code, and installing the nuget package), but are experiencing a problem.

My code:

SearchClient.Instance.UnifiedSearch(language).For(model.Query).UsingSynonymsImproved();

Build error:
Error CS1061 'IQueriedSearch<ISearchContent, QueryStringQuery>' does not contain a definition for 'UsingSynonymsImproved' and no extension method 'UsingSynonymsImproved' accepting a first argument of type 'IQueriedSearch<ISearchContent, QueryStringQuery>' could be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)

I have both the reference and the using directive.

Hi Tomas,

Please make sure you have. 

using EPiServer.Find.Cms;

If I don't have it I get the same error message. I have updated the README to reflect this.

Tomas, I will discuss with dev team if we can make it available from nuget.episerver.com after the summer.

The problem was not the using-statement, but the lack of suppoert for .NET 4.6.1.

Thanks for fixing  it so quick! Excellent work!

The problem was not the using-statement, but the lack of support for .NET 4.6.1.

Thanks for fixing  it so quick! Excellent work!

This looks very similar to what we talked about doing for a client. Thanks!

@dada This should work for filtered search as well?

I have code similar to this (simplified a bit):

SearchClient.Instance.Search<EntryContentBase>(Language.Norwegian)
.For(searchQuery)
.InField(x)
.InField(y)
.InField(z)
.MinimumShouldMatch("2<60%")
.UsingSynonymsImproved()
.ApplyBestBets()

I cannot get any results for multi words synonyms.

@Mari if you could share index details and JSON for that search I will look into it. Send it directly to my email daniel.dahlin@episerver.con

@dada: Back from vaction. Email is coming in next couple of minutes.

I have the same issues when trying to get hits on bidirectional synonyms via the UsingImprovedSynonyms()

Hi @Mari @Eric

By the looks of JSON for search shared by Mari it looks like the match is never made which likely because the local synonym list is cached and which lacks the additional synonym. Also empty lists are cached to avoid spamming the service with requests.

Testing multi term synonyms and bidirectional synonyms works locally.

By default the list is cached for an hour. When testing you could set it to something lower like .UsingImprovedSynonyms(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10))

I can confirm that caching is the issue! Went back to the branch and tested once more, and now it works! Thanks, Daniel!

Hi,

I cant install EPiServer.Labs.Find.Toolbox from the nuget package, how to find it ?

@Suha: you could download the .nupkg file from the GitHub repo.

Thank you Tomas, which one of them ?

Hi @Suha: 1.1.0 is the latest. I would suggest you go with this one because of the improvements it comes with.

The newest one, I guess: EPiServer.Labs.Find.Toolbox.1.1.0.nupkg

I will go with the newest one.
Thank you @dada and @Tomas

I imported the source code and installed the nuget package and I got the following error ?

QueriedSearch<ISearchContent, QueryStringQuery>' does not contain a definition for 'UsingSynonymsImproved'

Hi @Suha

You should only need the nuget package. Please share the full code using UsingSynonymsImproved(). What version of .NET is your solution compiled for?

Hi @dada

It targets .NET Framwork 4.7.2

Here how the code looks like:

Hi again,

I added EPiServer.Labs.Find.Toolbox.1.1.0.nupkg directly to my project under the root. 

This is what I get back after trying to install it from nuget package.

Hi @Suha

It looks like the package is not installed. 

http://packagesource is not a likely valid source, right?

Hi @dada

Thats right, was wrong path, thanks!

I have the following code and I cannot get any results for multi words synonyms, I am missing something maybe?

Hi @Suha

Set the cache duration to something really low when testing. Default is 3 hours.

 .UsingSynonymsImproved([cacheDuration]) 

Hi @dada

Works nice! 

@Suha Glad to hear!

How doese synoyms works when the fras and synoyms is in the searchlist or must the fras be something which doesnt give a search results ? 

Hi @Suha

Phrase could be something that exist in the index but it doesn't have to.

If it exists in the index you will as expected get hits on both the phrase and the synonym that the phrase matches. 

Do you know if anyone has anything working for CMS 12 and .NET Core? I can look at the package myself but just checking as we are experiencing this problem

Hi Scott

I put it in the net branch

https://github.com/episerver/EPiServer.Labs.Find.Toolbox/blob/net/packages/EPiServer.Labs.Find.Toolbox.2.0.1.nupkg