For retail product title search, would there be a better stemmer to use? We wanted a less aggressive stemmer, but I would expect the term seating to stem. I have found several other words which end in ing and do not get stemmed. Amongst our product lines are four million books with all kinds of crazy titles, like the following oddity! Here counseling stems and unknowing doesn't:
1. The Cloud of Unknowing and the Book of Privy Counseling Buy New: $29.95 $18.30 3 New and Used from $18.30 -----Original Message----- From: ysee...@gmail.com [mailto:ysee...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yonik Seeley Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 10:27 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Cc: Robert Petersen Subject: Re: FW: no results searching for stadium seating chairs On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Robert Petersen <rober...@buy.com> wrote: > Very interestingly, LucidKStemFilterFactory is stemming 'ing's differently > for different words. The word 'seating' doesn't lose the 'ing' but the word > 'counseling' does! Can anyone explain the difference here? protwords.txt is > empty btw. KStem is dictionary driven, so "seating" is probably in the dictionary. I guess the author decided that "seating" and "seat" were sufficiently different. -Yonik http://www.lucenerevolution.org -- Lucene/Solr User Conference, May 25-26, San Francisco
