Re: using Porter

2010-02-19 Thread Pamela Foxcroft
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 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

Re: using Porter

2010-02-19 Thread Pamela Foxcroft
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 wrote: > Thanks Ben and Michael! > > Pam > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Ben Martz wrote: > >> Pamela, >>

Re: using Porter

2010-02-19 Thread Pamela Foxcroft
Thanks Ben and Michael! Pam On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Ben Martz 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

Re: using Porter

2010-02-18 Thread Ben Martz
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

RE: using Porter

2010-02-18 Thread Michael Garski
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.