On Tue, 8 Jan 2002, Neal Richter wrote: > Would anyone be interested in having the Porter-type Stemming > Algorithms integrated as a second stemming algorithm?
Sure. There's nothing saying the current crop of fuzzy algorithms is necessarily the final word on things. :-) But keep in mind that the way the current Endings algorithm works is slightly different than most "stemming" approaches. All words are indexed as-is and then at search time, the fuzzy algorithm can add additional "fuzzy query words" to the user query (at usually lower weight). > Is everyone happy with the current stemming system? There are benefits and drawbacks. One benefit is that ispell stemming dictionaries are available for most languages. One drawback is that it's only as good as the ispell dictionary used--and many are not exactly designed for what ht://Dig is doing with them. (Several people recently worked on a revised version for htfuzzy purposes.) -Geoff _______________________________________________ htdig-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-dev
