I just complied it myself. However I am still curious as to whether there is a version floating around somewhere.
Pam On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Pamela Foxcroft <pamelafoxcr...@gmail.com>wrote: > Can anyone tell me where I can get the snowball.dll from? > > There was a lucene.net.dll, but I can't find the snowball one? > > Thanks > > Pam > > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Pamela Foxcroft <pamelafoxcr...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Thanks Ben and Michael! >> >> Pam >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Ben Martz <benma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Pamela, >>> >>> I strongly recommend than anyone planning to work with Lucene.Net follows >>> Michael's suggestion and reads LIA for background but once you've done >>> that, >>> here's a summary in just a few lines that may help get you up and >>> running. I >>> use Snowball (read about algorithmic justifications here: >>> http://snowball.tartarus.org/) in my product for stemming. IIRC, >>> Snowball >>> can be found in the contrib directory. The approach just using the >>> PorterStemming analyzer is pretty much identical. >>> >>> Indexing: >>> >>> IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(indexPath, new SnowballAnalyzer( >>> "English"), false); >>> >>> >>> Searching: >>> >>> Analyzer analyzer = new SnowballAnalyzer("English"); >>> >>> QueryParser qp = new QueryParser("Contents", analyzer); >>> >>> Query query = qp.Parse(inQuery); >>> >>> >>> Also keep in mind that if you use Highlighter that you will need to again >>> use the Snowball analyzer when fragmenting the results (I'm actually >>> reading >>> the original field contents from a cached file on disk here, don't mind >>> me >>> :D) >>> >>> QueryScorer qs = new QueryScorer(query, reader, "Contents"); >>> >>> Highlighter hl = new Highlighter(qs); >>> >>> hl.SetMaxDocBytesToAnalyze(int.MaxValue); >>> >>> >>> TokenStream stream = new >>> SnowballAnalyzer("English").TokenStream("Contents", >>> new StringReader(fileContents)); >>> >>> >>> TextFragment[] frag = hl.GetBestTextFragments(stream, fileContents, >>> false, >>> inDetailLevel == Int32.MaxValue ? k_MaxQueryFragments : inDetailLevel); >>> >>> Good luck, >>> Ben >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Michael Garski < >>> mgar...@myspace-inc.com>wrote: >>> >>> > Pamela, >>> > >>> > To get the results you expect using a stemmer, you would need to use it >>> > at both index and search time. >>> > >>> > I don't have any examples on the use of a stemmer, and suggest checking >>> > out the book Lucene in Action - there is an early access copy of the >>> > next version available at http://www.manning.com/hatcher3/. While the >>> > book details the Java version of Lucene, the same APIs are present in >>> > Lucene.Net. >>> > >>> > Michael >>> > >>> > -----Original Message----- >>> > From: Pamela Foxcroft [mailto:pamelafoxcr...@gmail.com] >>> > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 10:39 AM >>> > To: lucene-net-dev@lucene.apache.org >>> > Subject: using Porter >>> > >>> > I am confused about where I use PorterSteming algorithm. Do I use it in >>> > the >>> > indexer or the searcher? >>> > >>> > Also if anyone has any examples that would be great! >>> > >>> > Thanks >>> > >>> > Pamela >>> > >>> > >>> >> >> >
