That is how Porter stemmers work. They do not produce dictionary stems. They produce a common token for different inflections of the same word.
The stem for "germanies" is also "germani". Example sentence: "The two Germanies merged in 1990." More info here: http://tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/ wunder On 6/23/09 7:36 AM, "Julian Davchev" <j...@drun.net> wrote: > Hi, > Might be normal but I am confused why EnglishPorterFilterFactory > transforms germany to germani > > Cheers
