On Fri, 8 Jun 2001, Alexander I. Lebedev wrote:
> I want to resend my previous message and report another example of the
> bug in htdig3.20b3 I've noticed earlier.
Yes, this is certainly an easier-to-reproduce version of the bug. (I don't
have the Russian ispell files, for example.)
> The standard english dictionary (english.0) contains two words:
> skate/DGRSZ
> skater/MS
> When searching for the word "skate" with the ending mechanism enabled,
> HTDig searches for the following forms:
> skate, skated, skating, skater, skates, skaters.
To quote from the documentation: (attrs.html#search_algorithm)
Each word is first reduced to its word root and then all known legal
endings are used for the matching.
I think the bug basically comes up because there are some subset of
permuations that are also root words. In Endings::getWords, if a word is
already a root word, then it doesn't bother to check if it's also a
permutation.
--
-Geoff Hutchison
Williams Students Online
http://wso.williams.edu/
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