Pamela, To get the results you expect using a stemmer, you would need to use it at both index and search time.
I don't have any examples on the use of a stemmer, and suggest checking out the book Lucene in Action - there is an early access copy of the next version available at http://www.manning.com/hatcher3/. While the book details the Java version of Lucene, the same APIs are present in Lucene.Net. Michael -----Original Message----- From: Pamela Foxcroft [mailto:pamelafoxcr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:39 AM To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org Subject: using Porter I am confused about where I use PorterSteming algorithm. Do I use it in the indexer or the searcher? Also if anyone has any examples that would be great! Thanks Pamela
