Interpreting what the user meant and what they ideally would like to find is tricky business. This talk will cover useful tips and tricks to better leverage and extend Solr's analysis and query parsing capabilities to more richly parse and interpret user queries.
In this talk, Solr's built-in query parsers will be detailed included when and how to use them. Solr has nested query parsing capability, allowing for multiple query parsers to be used to generate a single query. The nested query parsing feature will be described and demonstrated. In many domains, e-commerce in particular, parsing queries often means interpreting which entities (e.g. products, categories, vehicles) the user likely means; this talk will conclude with techniques to achieve richer query interpretation.