I second Jamal, using a soft stemmer for your language should solve the problem. Specifically to the english language and the cases you mentioned :
1) Minimal English stemmer should be a good solution [1] 2) The english porter stemmer can be valid for your use case as well [2] 3) Not sure if the english possessive is managed by the previous filters, in case not [3] Cheers [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Filter+Descriptions#FilterDescriptions-EnglishMinimalStemFilter [2] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Filter+Descriptions#FilterDescriptions-PorterStemFilter [3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Filter+Descriptions#FilterDescriptions-ClassicFilter On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Jamal, Sarfaraz < sarfaraz.ja...@verizonwireless.com.invalid> wrote: > I would start by looking at the stemming documentation - > > It might be of help. > > Sas > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Surender [mailto:surender.si...@rsystems.com] > Sent: Friday, July 8, 2016 8:30 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Searching Home's, Homes and Home > > User can type keyword for search in many ways an and following are the few > examples: > if user types any of the keywords homes, home, home's then it should be > able to search the following: > 1. Home > 2. Home's > 3. Homes > > If user types Americas, the results should include 1. Americas 2. > America's 3. America > > Please suggest how to send the search query to Solr to include all the > results. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Searching-Home-s-Homes-and-Home-tp4286341.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > -- -------------------------- Benedetti Alessandro Visiting card : http://about.me/alessandro_benedetti "Tyger, tyger burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" William Blake - Songs of Experience -1794 England