Gamera and Gamers do not stem to the same word, but the old Netflix engine did conflate those two words. The Metaphones for those are KMR and KMRS, respectively, and the old engine did fuzzy matching on Metaphones, something I don't recommend. It also matched "skiing" to "sings".
wunder On 10/4/07 7:35 AM, "Otis Gospodnetic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious about this one. I'm assuming Porter stemmer would stem Gamers and > Gamera to the same stem (Game?). If the stems are different, which stemmer > are you using? A smarter custom morphological stemmer? > > Thanks, > Otis > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Tom Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 8:16:18 PM > Subject: Re: Solr live at Netflix > > Nice! > > And there seem to be some improvements. For example, "Gamers" and "Gamera" > no longer stem to the same word :-) > > Tom > > On 10/2/07, Walter Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Here at Netflix, we switched over our site search to Solr two weeks ago. >> We've seen zero problems with the server. We average 1.2 million >> queries/day on a 250K item index. We're running four Solr servers >> with simple round-robin HTTP load-sharing. >> >> This is all on 1.1. I've been too busy tuning to upgrade. >> >> Thanks everyone, this is a great piece of software. >> >> wunder >> -- >> Walter Underwood >> Search Guy, Netflix
