Hello Robert, you are so right, plurals based on prefixes and suffixes are working. Plurals based on inserted "و" do not (باب and ابوب).
The few words i had tested where all of the "insert" type and not the prefix/suffix. thank you :) -walid On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 15:08 -0400, Robert Muir wrote: > > the fact is, plural (as an example) is not supported, and that is one of > > the most common things that a person doing some search will expect to > > Walid, I'm not sure this is true. Many plurals are supported > (certainly not exceptional cases or broken plurals). > This is no different than the other language analyzers in lucene, even > english stemmers: the most common forms are grouped together and thats > about all you can say :) > > maybe in the future we can improve it though for your particular > concern, add simple dictionary mappings for at least the most common > broken plurals, something like that. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org