Tatsuo Ishii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, probably we need to copy the English stemming rule to the one for > Japanese.
Pardon my ignorance here, but is the concept of stemming even relevant to Japanese/Chinese/Korean? What little I know about ideographic languages suggests it wouldn't work well. And surely the specific rules in the Snowball project's English stemmer wouldn't work. > I think same thing (commonly used English with local > language) can be applied to Chinese and Korean. Well, it's not hard at all to find chunks of English text that have embedded bits of French, Spanish, or what-have-you, but that's not an argument for trying to intermix the stemmers. I doubt that such simple bits of program could tell the language difference well enough to determine which stemming rules to apply. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq