On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 16:06 -0400, Kevin Kubasik wrote: > Ok, so if I run a query for Environmental, I would hope to turn up > something that might relate to the environment, the problem is, our > search term isn't broken down. I tried at first to create a simple set > of rules (like easy plurals, if a word ends in 's' run the query > without the 's' as well etc) but there's really nothing universal.
This is called 'stemming', and is already implemented in Beagle. We use the Porter Stemmer provided by Lucene. A description of the algorithm is available at: http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/ -J _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers