Re: [Nutch-dev] Stemming or PrefixQuery

2005-01-18 Thread Pathiyil, Praveen
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

[Nutch-dev] Stemming or PrefixQuery

2005-01-17 Thread Steve Follmer
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