The other approach is to use a stemmer both at index and query time. BTW, it's very easy to make a "custom" analyzer by chaining together the Tokenizer and as many filters (e.g. PorterStemFilter), essentially composing your analyzer from various pre-built Lucene parts.
HTH Erick On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Anshum <ansh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Manjula, > Yes lucene by default would only tackle exact term matches unless you use a > custom analyzer to expand the index/query. > > -- > Anshum Gupta > http://ai-cafe.blogspot.com > > The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The > distinction is yours to draw............ > > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:22 PM, manjula wijewickrema <manjul...@gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I am using Lucene 2.9.1 . I have downloaded and run the > 'HelloLucene.java' > > class by modifing the input document and user query in various ways. Once > I > > put the document sentenses as 'Lucene in actions' insted of 'Lucene in > > action', and I gave the query as 'action' and run the programme. But it > did > > not show me the 'Lucene in action as a hit'! What is the reason for this? > > Why it doesn't tackle word 'actions' as a hit? Does Lucene identify only > > the > > exactly matching words? > > > > Thanks > > Manjula > > >
