Hello all, I know that we can expand a word to get its synonyms with Wordnet. I was wondering if we could reduce the index size by including a synonym instead of a word on the synonym list.
For instance, if "screen" shows up, I would like to replace it by "monitor" (it is a stupid example, but it was the first thing that crossed my mind). Thus, instead of having both entries on the index, I would have only one. Thus, I would need to pre-process any queries, replacing the words by its synonyms as well. I was wondering if someone has done such a thing in an analyzer already and could give me a little help. My aim is to reduce the index as much as possible (I already have a stemmer and a stopword filter on the analyzer). Could anyone point other ways to reduce the number of terms of an index? The fact is that I would like to create "extra vectors" with my own weighting scheme, and it is a quite costly algorithm, so the less terms I have the better it performs. Regards, Pablo -- Pablo Gomes Ludermir [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
