: Yes, I have tried different languages. At least English, French, German and : Finnish.
I don't know anything about Russian, but I did find this chart fro mteh snowball website giving examles of some stemming it is suppose to do... http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/russian/stemmer.html ...and i verified that those don't work. the SnowballFilterFactory isn't really doing anything special here, so if it doesn't work for Russian (but it does work for other langauges) it sounds like a lower level problem with the Lucene SnowballFilter ... i notice that the only test case for it sanity checks that it works with English, there are no tests of Russian. you may want to make a unit test for this and file a bug with Lucene-Java However... Keep in mind that the SnowballFilter is inheriently based arround reflection -- not only is it used to pick the Stemmer class per field to be analized, the base class for all of the langauge specific Stemmers also uses reflection to decide if/when to call various methods during it's main loop ... if you are happy with the results produced by the contrib/analyzers RussianStemFilter i would recommend using that instead. -Hoss
