Yes. For this particular example, PorterStemFilter will do the job. For more complex things (e.g. a search for car returning car, auto, automobile, vehicle) you'll need to add thesaurus-like capability to your indexer. This can be done by writing a custom Analyzer.
It sounds like you have a lot of questions, but have not read much Lucene documentation. :) Otis --- "Pleasant, Tracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I search for "like" I would want the search to return documents > containing "like", "liked", "likes", etc.. variations of the word. > > Is there a way to tell Lucene to do this? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]