On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Lee Goddard <lee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to weight the individual initials as words? > > Would you recommend employing a stemmer? > > Yes it is definitely possible. But don't just use any stemmer. You need to adapt something so that you preserve initial letters and likely uses heuristics such as possibly preserving case. You will also probably want to include alternative forms in other fields. These would include nicknames, stock symbols and abbreviations.
