I do not know enough about the German stemmer included with Lucene, but I can suggest that you look at the Snowball stemmers. Take a look at the Lucene Sandbox (link on Lucene's home page) to see how they can be used with Lucene.
Otis --- Marius Seiceanu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I have an application which make searches in Lucene indexed > documents. The documents content is in German language. > I use Lucene 1.3rc1. > > If I search for "Universit�t" i get some results, but if I search > > for "universit�t" i get no results. > > In the CHANGES.TXT of 1.3rc1 > (http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/jakarta-lucene/CHANGES.txt?rev=1.45) > > point 11 says that stamming is not case sensitive anymore. > ---------- > 11. Changed the German stemming algorithm to ignore case while > stripping. The new algorithm is faster and produces more equal stems > from nouns and verbs derived from the same word. (gschwarz) > ---------- > For "Gesetz" and "gesetz" i get the same number of results! > > Thank you, > Marius Seiceanu. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
