Walid, thanks for your feedback. fyi I created an issue with some minor improvements (such as lam-lam prefix) to the arabic analyzer: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1758
I also tried to improve the stopwords list, but your Arabic is surely much better than mine. If you are interested, have a look perhaps you could double check :) On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:05 PM, walid<walid.bak...@elementn.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- Robert Muir rcm...@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
