Ok, thank you Oleg. I have another dictionary package which is a conversion to hunspell aswell:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries#Arabic_.28North_Africa_and_Middle_East.29 (Conversion of Buckwalter's Arabic morphological analyser) 2006-02-08 And running that gives me this error : (again the affix file) ERROR: wrong affix file format for flag CONTEXT: line 560 of configuration file "C:/Program Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/share/tsearch_data/arabic_utf8_alias.affix": "PFX 1013 Y 6 " / Moe On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Oleg Bartunov <o...@sai.msu.su> wrote: > Mohamed, > > We are looking on the problem. > > Oleg > > On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Mohamed wrote: > > No, I don't. But the ts_lexize don't return anything so I figured there >> must >> be an error somehow. >> I think we are using the same dictionary + that I am using the stopwords >> file and a different affix file, because using the hunspell (ayaspell) >> .aff >> gives me this error : >> >> ERROR: wrong affix file format for flag >> CONTEXT: line 42 of configuration file "C:/Program >> Files/PostgreSQL/8.3/share/tsearch_data/hunarabic.affix": "PFX Aa Y 40 >> >> / Moe >> >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Daniel Chiaramello < >> daniel.chiarame...@golog.net> wrote: >> >> Hi Mohamed. >>> >>> I don't know where you get the dictionary - I unsuccessfully tried the >>> OpenOffice one by myself (the Ayaspell one), and I had no arabic >>> stopwords >>> file. >>> >>> Renaming the file is supposed to be enough (I did it successfully for >>> Thailandese dictionary) - the ".aff'" file becoming the ".affix" one. >>> When I tried to create the dictionary: >>> >>> CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY ar_ispell ( >>> TEMPLATE = ispell, >>> DictFile = ar_utf8, >>> AffFile = ar_utf8, >>> StopWords = english >>> ); >>> >>> I had an error: >>> >>> ERREUR: mauvais format de fichier affixe pour le drapeau >>> CONTEXTE : ligne 42 du fichier de configuration ? >>> /usr/share/pgsql/tsearch_data/ar_utf8.affix ? : ? PFX Aa Y 40 >>> >>> (which means Bad format of Affix file for flag, line 42 of configuration >>> file) >>> >>> Do you have an error when creating your dictionary? >>> >>> Daniel >>> >>> Mohamed a ?crit : >>> >>> >>> I have ran into some problems here. >>> I am trying to implement arabic fulltext search on three columns. >>> >>> To create a dictionary I have a hunspell dictionary and and arabic stop >>> file. >>> >>> CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY hunspell_dic ( >>> TEMPLATE = ispell, >>> DictFile = hunarabic, >>> AffFile = hunarabic, >>> StopWords = arabic >>> ); >>> >>> >>> 1) The problem is that the hunspell contains a .dic and a .aff file but >>> the configuration requeries a .dict and .affix file. I have tried to >>> change >>> the endings but with no success. >>> >>> 2) ts_lexize('hunspell_dic', 'ARABIC WORD') returns nothing >>> >>> 3) How can I convert my .dic and .aff to valid .dict and .affix ? >>> >>> 4) I have read that when using dictionaries, if a word is not recognized >>> by >>> any dictionary it will not be indexed. I find that troublesome. I would >>> like >>> everything but the stop words to be indexed. I guess this might be a step >>> that I am not ready for yet, but just wanted to put it out there. >>> >>> >>> >>> Also I would like to know how the process of the fulltext search >>> implementation looks like, from config to search. >>> >>> Create dictionary, then a text configuration, add dic to configuration, >>> index columns with gin or gist ... >>> >>> How does a search look like? Does it match against the gin/gist index. >>> Have that index been built up using the dictionary/configuration, or is >>> the >>> dictionary only used on search frases? >>> >>> / Moe >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > Regards, > Oleg > _____________________________________________________________ > Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru), > Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia > Internet: o...@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/ > phone: +007(495)939-16-83, +007(495)939-23-83 >
