Hi Tobi, On 02/04/2008 at 4:11 PM, Tobias Lohr wrote: > On 02/04/2008 at 3:42 PM, Steven A Rowe wrote: > > <filter class="solr.SnowballPorterFilterFactory" language="German"/> > > thanks for your hint. I've already tried this [...]
Did it work? > I wonder, whether this leads to the same or a different result. > If the latter, what is the difference between the stemmer and > the snowball variant? Here is a report on the algorithm used by Lucene's GermanStemmer, which you were initially attempting to use: <http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/inst/pubs/tr-b-99-16.abstract.html> And here is a description of the Snowball German stemming algorithm: <http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/german/stemmer.html> Also, if you want to make the GermanStemmer work, have you tried the following?: <filter class="solr.analysis.GermanStemFilterFactory"/> Steve
