Kevin & Guillaume, Many thanks for the pointers. It sounds like one of these two solutions will fit our needs.
Cheers, Jason On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Guillaume Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there an option to perform less aggressive stemming in solr? We're > using > > the Porter stemmer. I see that there is an option for Snowball, but my > > understanding is that Snowball is a refinement of Porter rather than > > something radically different. I think we'd be best off with something > very > > basic, possibly as simple as removing plural endings. Our index is over > > product descriptions, so it's important that we stem normal variations in > > nouns, but adverbs, verbs and possibly adjective variations are not so > > important and sometimes cause problems for us. > > See this thread: http://markmail.org/message/mypn4gilaaz2ooqx and > especially this post: http://markmail.org/message/ifivmev3kmihre3t . > > -- > Guillaume > -- Jason Rennie Head of Machine Learning Technologies, StyleFeeder http://www.stylefeeder.com/ Samantha's blog & pictures: http://samanthalyrarennie.blogspot.com/
