Enable Facet Interpreter

Although it may seem counterintuitive, you can find relevant results faster by narrowing the search scope. For example, a search for "API" on the SearchUnify Docs website produces tens of results, many of which may not be useful to a developer looking for specific endpoints or documentation on valid POST call arguments. By selecting the Developer Guides facet, the user can obtain fewer but highly targeted results.

While facets are powerful tools, many users do not use them. With Enable Facet Interpreter, administrators can allow users to see faceted search results even when they have not explicitly selected a facet value.

How it Works?

Enable Facet Interpreter compares search queries with facet values. For example, if a user searches for "jira"—which is also a facet value in Topic—and Enable Facet Interpreter is turned on and configured for the Topic content type, the user will see up to five additional results on the first page. These extra results are those the user would have received by explicitly selecting the "jira" facet value.

Impact on User Experience

  • More and relevant results. Instead of replacing regular results with faceted results, Enable Facet Interpreter provides up to five additional faceted results on the first search results page. Increasing the number of relevant choices improves user satisfaction.
  • Control. Administrators can configure which facet values are recognized from search queries. For example, on a search client with three filters (Tags, Date, and Author Name), an administrator can set up Enable Facet Interpreter to detect only author names as facet values. In this configuration, any matches with tags or dates are ignored.

Turn On Enable Facet Interpreter

  1. Go to Search Tuning > Auto.

  2. Click on Settings in Enable Facet Interpreter.

  3. Select the content fields you want to use as facets. For example, if you want to use authors as facets and all author names are stored in a content field, click the Add icon to open a window and specify that field. Now, select content fields to double as facets.

  4. Turn on Enable Facet Interpreter.

  5. Click Train Facet Interpreter to complete the process.