Hi Tony,

Lucene certainly does support it.  It just requires you to use a
tokeniser that performs stemming such as any analyzer that uses
PorterStemFilter.

Sachin 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Qian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 08 March 2007 16:52
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Plural word search

All,

I'm evaluating Lucene as a full-text search engine for a project. I got
one of the requirements as following:

4) Plural Literal Search
If you use the plural of a term such as bears the results will include
matches to the plural term bears as well as the singular term bear.

it seems to me we need to build a dictionary to support it. Does Lucene
support it?

appreciate your help.

Tony

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