Hi, Yes, if you want flowers to match flower you will want to apply stemming. You can use the Snowball for English. I don't have any code handy, but you can see how it's done if you look at Lucene's unit test for Snowball Analyzer.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: RanjithStar <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:31:06 AM > Subject: Stemming issues > > > I use StandardAnalyzer(english only) for indexing and not using any stemmer > now. If I index the word 'flower' and try to do a search for 'flowers', it > doesn't give any result. Similarily, if I had indexed for 'attacks' and > search for 'attack', it won't give any result. > In order to make this work, do I need to stem the word 'flowers' as 'flower' > before indexing? OR index as 'flowers' as such and while making a search > does Lucene has any provision to search for 'flower' or 'flowers'? If so, > how can it be accomplished? Also, which stemmer can I use? snowball? > Can any one please add some code snippet for how to use it? > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Stemming-issues-tp21035261p21035261.html > Sent from the Nutch - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
