On 4/21/10 2:20 PM, Robert Muir wrote:
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Mark Miller<markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote:
Right - I agree they both have their strengths and weakness' - but you
usually don't get things like running->ran with stemming. Like most things,
its a tradeoff. There is always a hybrid approach as well.
I think running/ran has more problems, the word is so ambiguous that whether
or not your search engine stems it right isn't going to matter anyway
(running for office has nothing to do with running shoes, etc)
Its an orthogonal issue - running will have that problem no matter what.
It doesn't affect whether a user that types running may be just as
interested in a doc that matches all of their other terms but has ran
instead of running. Its also just a simple example.
- Mark
