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 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Ann-Marie Horcher
