Re: PorterStemmer using example schema and data

2012-03-20 Thread Birkmann, Magdalena
I tried that, and it seems like "recharging" and "rechargeable", for example, actually do stem to the same root (recharg). So why is it not working when I'm searching on my indexed sampledocs? The stemming works when I search for "videos" and it's actually "video" in the document, etc., but not for

Re: PorterStemmer using example schema and data

2012-03-16 Thread Erick Erickson
What you think the results of stemming should be and what they actually are sometimes differ ... Look at the admin/analysis page, check the "verbose" boxes and try recharging rechargeable and you'll see, step by step, the results of each element of the analysis chain. Since the Porter stemmer is a