Configuring the Thesaurus and Noise Word Files

There are several ways to configure the result set that your end users will receive. The thesaurus and noise word file are the two features most commonly used to configure the result set. In this section we discuss the more common ways to configure these elements.

Configuring the Thesaurus

The thesaurus is a method to manually force the expansion or replacement of query terms as the query is executed against the index. It allows you to create expansion or replacement sets, as well as weighting and/or stemming the terms within the expansion or replacement sets.

The thesaurus is configured via an XML file, which is located by default in the drive:\Program Files\Office SharePoint Server\Data\ directory ...

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