On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 11:06:22AM -0800, James Moore wrote: > I'd like to get the following behavior: > > 1. Stemming. The search is on a database of summaries of California legal > cases. Things like a search for "thermal image" needs to hit "thermal > imaging." > > 2. Stop words. Searches for "failing to instruct the jury" should come up > with hits on a search for "fail to instruct." > > 3. Case-insensitive. > > What I tried was: > > class StemmedAnalyzer < Ferret::Analysis::Analyzer > def token_stream(field, reader) > return > Ferret::Analysis::PorterStemFilter.new(Ferret::Analysis::LowerCaseTokenizer. > new(reader)) > end > end > > class Summary < ActiveRecord::Base > acts_as_ferret(:analyzer => StemmedAnalyzer.new) > > But this doesn't appear to give me either stemming or stopwords. It does > give me basic searching (searches for exact keywords without stopwords work, > searches with stopwords return no results).
what version of Ferret/AAF are you using ? In the most recent Ferret (0.10.13) there is no class PorterStemFilter. With said Feret version, the following seems to suit your needs: http://pastie.caboo.se/22629 Jens -- webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH www.webit.de Dipl.-Wirtschaftsingenieur Jens Krämer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schnorrstraße 76 Tel +49 351 46766 0 D-01069 Dresden Fax +49 351 46766 66 _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
