I modified the original English Stemmer written in Snowball language and
regenerate the Java implementation using Snowball compiler. It's been
working for me  so far. I certainly can share the modified Snowball English
Stemmer if anyone wants to use it.

Cheers,
Cuong

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:12 AM, Mike Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> If you find a solution that works well, I encourage you to contribute it
> back to Solr.  Plural-only stemming is probably a common need (I've
> definitely wanted to use it before).
>
> cheers,
> -Mike
>
>
> On 30-Jun-08, at 2:25 AM, climbingrose wrote:
>
>  Ok, it looks like step 1a in Porter algo does what I need.
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 6:39 PM, climbingrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi all,
>>> Porter stemmer in general is really good. However, there are some cases
>>> where it doesn't work. For example, "accountant" matches "Accountant" as
>>> well as "Account Manager" which isn't desirable. Is it possible to use
>>> this
>>> analyser for plural words only? For example:
>>> +Accountant -> accountant
>>> +Accountants -> accountant
>>> +Account -> Account
>>> +Accounts -> account
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Cuong Hoang
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Cuong Hoang
>>
>
>


-- 
Regards,

Cuong Hoang

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