Re: Re: Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming

2008-12-21 Thread tom
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Re: Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming

2008-12-21 Thread tom
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Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming

2008-12-21 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
gt; From: Chris Hostetter > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 2:12:21 PM > Subject: Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming > > > : Well some client inquiries if it's possible to expand such simple words > : and does Lucene have an API for this

Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming

2008-12-20 Thread Chris Hostetter
: Well some client inquiries if it's possible to expand such simple words : and does Lucene have an API for this logic? Because all I read was the : stemming logic for Lucene was the other way around which is, example : "flashing" it will be trimmed to the root word "flash" when searched. ther

Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming

2008-12-17 Thread Jokin Cuadrado
> > > > From: Erick Erickson > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:14:13 PM > Subject: Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming > > Why do you want to do this? The reason I ask is that you're > making each

Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming

2008-12-16 Thread Erick Erickson
read was the stemming > logic for Lucene was the other way around which is, example "flashing" it > will be trimmed to the root word "flash" when searched. > > > Regards, > Jay Malaluan > > > > > > ____ > From

Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming

2008-12-16 Thread Jay Joel Malaluan
flash" when searched. Regards, Jay Malaluan From: Erick Erickson To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:14:13 PM Subject: Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming Why do you want to do this? The reason I ask is that you're m

Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming

2008-12-16 Thread Erick Erickson
Why do you want to do this? The reason I ask is that you're making each clause very complex. For a single term, it's not very complex, but for something like ((A AND B) OR (C AND D)) NOT X expanding A, B, C, D and X to, possibly many terms is...er...ugly. You could think about ngrams, althou

Re: Inquiry on Lucene Stemming

2008-12-16 Thread mathieu
you stem the search query and while indexing, so only "flash" is indexed when "flashing" is read. If you don't wont to hurt your index with half word, you can use a second index, just like for spelling : http://blog.garambrogne.net/index.php?post/2008/03/07/A-lexicon-approach-for-Lucene-index M.

Inquiry on Lucene Stemming

2008-12-16 Thread Jay Joel Malaluan
Hi, Can anyone comment if my understanding of the stemming process in Lucene is correct. From my testing using the SnowballAnalyzer, if I passed this word "flashing" it will be trimmed to a root word "flash" and this root word ("flash") will be the one searched not the original word "flashing"