El mar, 24-04-2007 a las 21:49 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: >> > >> For example, if I search for "eat", I'd like Lucene to find "eating", > >> "eaten", "ate", etc. > > Hi Andrew, > > The example you provide can only partially be performed using a rule based > stemmer, such as those uesd by Snowball. Most stemmers are capable of > stemming eating, eats, and eaten to eat. However they will not stem ate to > eat. > > While in theory you could consturuct some form of dictionary to help with > these verbal irregularities, it would be an very complex task. >
OK... Hmmm. So then I should assume that, for more complete stemming, there are no ready-made, easy-to-use dictionaries available under free licenses? I guess I assumed that there would be, given the prevalence of free software spelling checkers. Can't the data used by MySpell or the likes be adapted? Or is it a very different sort of dictionary that would be needed? Thanks, Andrew --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
