Hello - try the KStem filter. It is better suited for english and doesn't show this behaviour. Markus
-----Original message----- > From:Mark Vega <veg...@uci.edu> > Sent: Thursday 19th May 2016 19:55 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Stemming nouns ending in 'y' > > I am using Apache Nutch v1.10 and SOLR v.5.2.1 to index and search a medical > website and am trying to find out why every stemmer I've tried on certain > nouns in medical terminology ending in 'y' merely replaces the ending 'y' > with an 'I'. As example, the term 'osteopathy' stemmed with the Porter > Stemmer Filter stems to 'osteopathi', which will match 'osteopath' and > 'osteopathic', but will not match the original term 'osteopathy' itself. > I've seen this with quite a few medical and science nouns ending in 'y' > (though, oddly enough, the word 'terminology' itself stems to 'terminolog' > just as I would expect it to) and am wondering whether there is a different > stemmer I should be using, or if I am just using this one incorrectly. I am > currently applying the PorterStemFilterFactory to a field of type 'text' in > both the indexing and querying analyzers. Any comments, suggestions or > explanations would be much appreciated. > > -- > Mark F. Vega > Programmer/Analyst > UC Irvine Libraries - Web Services > veg...@uci.edu<mailto:veg...@uci.edu> > 949.824.9872 > -- > >
