Hi, It would be possible if you index tokens not as "words", but as "character ngrams". You'd need a custom analyzer for that. Code for character-based ngrams already exists in Lucene contrib, but you'd need to add it to Nutch.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Ben Chapman <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, December 15, 2008 9:58:24 AM > Subject: Re: Partial word searches? > > Does anyone have thoughts/suggestions for partial word searches? Is it even > possible? > > -Ben > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Ben Chapman wrote: > > > Hi, > > Is there a Nutch configuration option to enable search results for partial > > word searches? > > > > For example, searching on Dec will return 0 pages, while searching on > > December will return multiple results. I'm hoping that the search results > > for Dec will include Dec* (December, Decedent, Decca, etc). > > > > I've read through all the documentation, and googled to no avail. > > > > Thanks guys. > >
