Tim, I want to report that we successfully turned off stemming on our test server by commenting out line that calls the Porter Stemming Filter. Thanks for your help!
I can now search for "well", "wells", "wellness" specifically or get them all (and then some) with well*, or just search (well OR wells) to get the plural and singular. It's nice to have control again at the user search interface! Stuart, I'm not sure if you are referring to complications in the upper to lower case filtering algorithm or in searching. In either case, I did not mean to be comprehensive, but simply to raise the issue. I have used commercial search systems that provided the capital A 'feature.' I also know that some large SciTech systems do not include 'a' in the stop word list. We took 'a' and 'was' out of our test server just for fun. On our production server I may use a very meager stop word list based on the old 'Dialog' list, which did not include the word 'a'. I realize there are complexities, so I'm not trying to be glib. I do strongly recommend that the stemming option be configurable. I don't expect everyone to see things my way, but neither do I want to be limited in what I do when it's unnecessary. I vote for making it a configuration option and if it's enabled by default, that would be okay. Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
