Nope! This slang term only exists in the plural. The kind of prose with this usage may not follow standard grammatical and spelling rules anyway. Historically, text search has been funded mostly by the US intelligence agencies because they want to analyze formal and technical prose. And, it is coded by people who think in good grammar, and are perfect spellers.
If you find 'too aggressive' and 'too mild' to be a problem, what you want is 'lemmatization' where you work from a dictionary of word forms. Solr supports using Wordnet for this purpose. Lance ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Igal @ getRailo.org" <i...@getrailo.org> | To: java-user@lucene.apache.org | Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 4:18:20 PM | Subject: Re: Which stemmer? | | but if "dogs" are feet (and I guess I fall into the not-perfect group | here)... and "feet" is the plural form of "foot", then shouldn't | "dogs" | be stemmed to "dog" as a base, singular form? | | | | On 11/16/2012 2:32 PM, Tom Burton-West wrote: | > Hi Mike, | > | >>> Honestly I've never heard of anyone using "dogs" to mean feet | >>> either, but | > hey nobody's perfect. | > | > This is really off topic but I couldn't resist. This usage of | > "dogs" to | > mean feet occurs in old blues lyrics such as Blind Lemon | > Jefferson's "Hot | > Dogs" | > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v670qVwzm9c | > (Hard to make out what he's singing on the old 78, but he's says | > his "dogs" | > is red hot, meaning he can run really fast.) | > http://jasobrecht.com/blind-lemon-jefferson-star-blues-guitar/ | > | > Tom | > | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------- | 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
