Given an input of "Windjacke" (probably "wind jacket" in English), I'd
like the code that prepares the data for the index (tokenizer etc) to
understand that this is a "Jacke" ("jacket") so that a query for "Jacke"
would include the "Windjacke" document in its result set.It appears to me that such an analysis requires a dictionary-backed approach, which doesn't have to be perfect at all; a list of the most common 2000 words would probably do the job and fulfil a criterion of reasonable usefulness. Do you know of any implementation techniques or working implementations to do this kind of lexical analysis for German language data? (Or other languages, for that matter?) What are they, where can I find them? I'm sure there is something out (commercial or free) because I've seen lots of engines grokking German and the way it builds words. Failing that, what are the proper terms do refer to these techniques so you can search more successfully? Michael
