Hi Steve,
The analyzer that nutch has, will strip off the '*' at the end of the search
term, if you pass the search term through it. You might want to look at
net/nutch/analysis/NutchAnalysis.jj to see the rules for the analyzer.
To actually query the index for partial matches, you can add Pref
I believe the stock Nutch does not employ the stemming or the
prefixquery from Lucene. Is this because such queries are too expensive?
Or is it that they are just not useful, that 99% of Nutch users just
don't need them?
Lucene has some stemming modules for English and German I see. Does
English