Robert, Thank you very much for the reply.
If I understand it correctly, you have a main project and a contrib section. It is very important for us to have this Persian search work "correctly" rather than efficient. Would this be a good candidate for the contrib section if I wrote some codes for the Persian stemmer? Thanks, -Patrick On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Robert Muir <rcm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:24 PM, Patrick Estarian > <patrick.estar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get the Persian part of Lucene to work but apparently the > > current implementation is just a simple version of sopt word tokenizer > and > > no stemmer, etc. I was trying to find the contact of the person who had > done > > this but couldn't find it any where in the code. > > > > There is no stemmer intentionally, as my findings (and others) seem to > correspond with this statement: > > Our various experiments clearly show that a stemming > procedure decreases retrieval effectiveness when applied > to the Persian language. > > http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1674748 > > But YMMV, > > -- > lucidimagination.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
