Re: Straigtforward stemming example? Dictionary needed?

2007-04-26 Thread Andrew Green
El jue, 26-04-2007 a las 09:29 +1000, Daniel Noll escribió: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess there are a few points - it is impossible to stem with total accuracy using rules alone - combining a rule based stemmer with a dictionary could also be error prone. Unrelated words can have

Re: Straigtforward stemming example? Dictionary needed?

2007-04-25 Thread Daniel Noll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess there are a few points - it is impossible to stem with total accuracy using rules alone - combining a rule based stemmer with a dictionary could also be error prone. Unrelated words can have the same stem - consider the past tense of see and the stem of sawing

Straigtforward stemming example? Dictionary needed?

2007-04-24 Thread ahg
Hi, all, I'm looking for a simple, straightforward example of how to use the Snowball stemmer to make Lucene search results return all variants of the terms searched for. For example, if I search for eat, I'd like Lucene to find eating, eaten, ate, etc. In particular, I'm not clear on whether

Re: Straigtforward stemming example? Dictionary needed?

2007-04-24 Thread Doron Cohen
Hi Andrew, ahg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 24/04/2007 12:18:22: Hi, all, I'm looking for a simple, straightforward example of how to use the Snowball stemmer to make Lucene search results return all variants of the terms searched for. For example, if I search for eat, I'd like Lucene to

Re: Straigtforward stemming example? Dictionary needed?

2007-04-24 Thread damien . mccarthy
Hi Andrew, The example you provide can only partially be performed using a rule based stemmer, such as those uesd by Snowball. Most stemmers are capable of stemming eating, eats, and eaten to eat. However they will not stem ate to eat. While in theory you could consturuct some form of dictionary

Re: Straigtforward stemming example? Dictionary needed?

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Green
El mar, 24-04-2007 a las 21:49 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: For example, if I search for eat, I'd like Lucene to find eating, eaten, ate, etc. Hi Andrew, The example you provide can only partially be performed using a rule based stemmer, such as those uesd by Snowball. Most