Using synonyms with Lucene without WordPress

2010-05-24 Thread Larry Hendrix
Does anyone know of any classes available that allow you to define and use your own synonyms when searching with Lucene? I read some about WordPress but it seems those synonyms are predefined English words. The application I am working with searches for the names of contacts and companies. I wou

Re: Stemming Problem

2010-05-19 Thread Larry Hendrix
> > But I have to ask, why you want to keep capitalization? > and punctuation? Do you really want to fail to match > text indexed with "Erickson, Erick" with the query > "erick erickson"? That's often a source of frustration > instead of goodness. > >

Stemming Problem

2010-05-18 Thread Larry Hendrix
Hi, Right now I'm using Lucene with a basic Whitespace Anayzer but I'm having problems with stemming. Does anyone have a recommendation for other text analyzers that handle stemming and also keep capitalization, stop words, and punctuation? Thanks, Larry Larry A. Hendrix, Graduate Student C