Is it expected that Goering, Goring, and Göring return different numbers of results in search?

[Marlo Longley]

[Justin Coyne]

Most likely. The SynonymFilterFactory only operates on the text_en type (*_te*) fields. Any fields that are strings (*_s*) don't have synonyms. We are quering on these fields: https://github.com/sul-dlss/vt-arclight/blob/main/solr/conf/solrconfig.xml#L88-L99 You can do a search in solr with the debug field passed and it will show you how it makes matches.

See all these fields are copied into the text field

vt-arclight/solr/conf/schema.xml

Lines 346 to 376 in beada44

 <copyField source="normalized_title_ssm" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="places_ssim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="names_ssim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="access_subjects_ssim" dest="text" /> 
 <!-- grab the searchable notes --> 
 <copyField source="abstract_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="accessrestricct_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="accruals_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="acqinfo_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="altformavail_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="appraisal_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="arrangement_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="bibliography_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="bioghist_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="custodhist_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="did_note_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="fileplan_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="materialspec_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="note_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="odd_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="originalsloc_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="physdesc_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="physloc_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="phystech_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="processinfo_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="relatedmaterial_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="scopecontent_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="separatedmaterial_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <copyField source="userestrict_tesim" dest="text" /> 
 <!-- grab structured data that's important --> 
 <copyField source="unitid_ssm" dest="text" /> 

which is a text field

vt-arclight/solr/conf/schema.xml

Lines 139 to 147 in beada44

 <fieldType name="text" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"> 
   <analyzer> 
     <tokenizer class="solr.ICUTokenizerFactory" /> 
     <filter class="solr.KeywordRepeatFilterFactory" /> 
     <filter class="solr.ICUFoldingFilterFactory" /> 
     <filter class="solr.PorterStemFilterFactory"/> 
     <filter class="solr.RemoveDuplicatesTokenFilterFactory" /> 
   </analyzer> 
 </fieldType>