I don't expect this to work at all. Stemmers apply heuristics to try to fold words into their stem. They are notoriously incapable of handling irregular forms of a word. You'd need to look more at a synonym list for words like your example.
Best Erick On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Koji Sekiguchi <k...@r.email.ne.jp> wrote: > I've tried o.a.s.a.EnglishPorterFilterFactory, which creates > org.tartarus.snowball.ext.EnglishStemmer, > but didn't get any success... I'd like to search "went" and "gone" when I > query "go". > > Thank you, > > Koji > > > > Erick Erickson wrote: > >> If thou wast to investigate the stemmers would that work? I >> confess that I've never examined the output in detail, but >> they might help. >> >> I don't know of any synonym lists offhand, but then again I haven't >> looked. >> >> Best >> er...@miminallyhelpful.com >> >> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Koji Sekiguchi <k...@r.email.ne.jp> >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have a requirement to search English words with taking into account >>> conjugation of verbs and comparative and superlative of adjectives. >>> I googled but couldn't find solution so far. Do I have to have a synonym >>> table >>> to solve this problem or is there someone who have good solution in this >>> list? >>> >>> regards, >>> >>> Koji >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > >
