Chris, You could look at KStem to see if that does a better job. Or perhaps WordNet can be used to get the lemma of those terms instead of using stemming. Finally.... what was I going to say... ah, yes, using synonyms may be another way this can be handled.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Solr - Lucene - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Christopher Condit <con...@sdsc.edu> > To: "java-user@lucene.apache.org" <java-user@lucene.apache.org> > Sent: Thu, December 3, 2009 3:04:03 PM > Subject: Snowball Stemmer Question > > The Snowball Analyzer works well for certain constructs but not others. In > particular I'm having a problem with things like "colossal" vs "colossus" and > "hippocampus" vs "hippocampal". > Is there a way to customize the analyzer to include these rules? > Thanks, > -Chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
