Thanks Hoss
Could you please provide with any example

Does solr provide any implementation for dictionary stemmer, please let me
know 

Thanks
Rashid


hossman wrote:
> 
> 
> : If i give "machine" why is that it stems to "machin", now from where
> does
> : this word come from
> : If i give "revolutionary" it stems to "revolutionari", i thought it
> should
> : stem to revolution.
> : 
> : How does stemming work?
> 
> the porter stemmer (and all of the stemmers provided with solr) are 
> programtic stemmers ... they don't actually know the root of any words the 
> use an aproximate algorithm to compute a *token* from a word based on a 
> set of rules ... these tokens aren't neccessarily real words (and most of 
> the time they aren't words) but the same token tends to be produced from 
> words with similar roots.
> 
> if you want to see the actaul root word, you'll have to use a dictionary 
> based stemmer.
> 
> 
> -Hoss
> 
> 
> 

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