Synonyms are implemented as list of words that are considered to have the same meaning:
Drowsy, lethargic, listless, sleepy
Holiday, vacation
When a term featured in a list is used as a query parameter, all the other words in the list are appended to the query. For example, the query “The medicine made me drowsy”, when augmented using the previous synonym examples, becomes the following query:
The medicine made me drowsy, lethargic, listless, sleepy.
Synonyms are not applied to TEXT metadata fields like “title” or “author”.
Adding
a synonym
Click Configuration.
Click Synonyms.
Click Add Synonyms.
Enter two or more words in the Synonyms field.
Click Add if you have multiple entries for a synonym, else proceed to step 6.
Click Save.
Editing
a synonym
From the Metadata Configuration Summary page, click Synonyms.
Click Edit for the synonym you want to change.
Make the changes and click Save Changes.
Removing
a synonym
From the Metadata Configuration Summary page, click Synonyms.
Click Remove for the synonym you want to delete.
Click OK to confirm the deletion.
Saving
as XML
From the Metadata Configuration Summary page, click Synonyms.
Click Save as XML.
Click Save, then confirm whether you want to save your current synonyms and acronyms.
Sybase Search exports acronyms together with synonyms
to an XML file. For data integrity purposes, the original XML file
is not overwritten. Sybase Search writes the new settings into an
XML file available at the following location:
install_location\OmniQ\data\config\locale\QueryAugmentor_en.104.xml
Click OK.
Loading
from XML
From the Metadata Configuration Summary page, click Synonyms.
Click Load from XML.
Click Load, then confirm whether you want to load synonyms and acronyms from your XML file.
Click OK.
The synonyms are loaded from the default XML file available at:
install_location\OmniQ\config\locale\QueryAugmentor_en.xml.
After you load synonyms and acronyms from the XML file,
re-run Categories by doing a “Refresh All” from
the Categories page to take into account the configuration changes
to ensure that the category and View Category results are in synchronization.
