I am one of the other GSOC students.  I would be happy to help my compatriot
with testing.

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Cramer, David W (David) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
> Kasun knows more about the details of the stemmer, but I can point you to
> the documentation for the porter stemmer we used:
>
> http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/porter/stemmer.html
>
> Currently, English, French, and German are supported.
>
> You are correct search does not support wildcards in searches, and I don't
> believe that the algorithm would return results with the same base but
> different prefixes (i.e. searching for "inhibit" won't show pages with
> "exhibit"), but I think that's normal for any search engine.
>
> I'll add "Support wildcards in query string" to the list of future
> features. I thought I had added it there already but I see now that it's not
> listed.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Fekete [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:14 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Help needed testing CJK search support in
> webhelp
>
> Hi David,
>
> First of all, thank you for both of you for your work, it looks very
> promising!
> I have a few questions about how search and stemming works:
> - Is it possible to add partial matches to the search results? For example,
> now
> if you search for install, installing, or installed, the same results are
> returned (correctly), because these words all come from install. But if you
> don't type the entire word (say, only 'inst'), there aren't any results.
> - Am I right that the search engine does prefix-only matches? (nstall,
> *nstall,
> etc. does not work)
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
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