Re: Snowball Analyzer and apostrophes

2008-06-18 Thread Erick Erickson
This is tricky If you strip the apostrophe, you'd get interesting results from O'brien, depending upon how you stripped it (i.e. "closed up" the word to Obrien or substituted a space, e.g. O brien). We've generally had the fewest surprises by closing up apostrophes (i.e. Obrien, Charlies). Un

Re: Snowball Analyzer

2006-12-06 Thread Erick Erickson
What behavior are you expecting? The point of stemming is exactly to make monkey equivalent to monkeys. Along with a series of other transformations. What are you trying to accomplish? Best Erick On 12/6/06, Aaron Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've got the snowball analyzer working and

Re: snowball analyzer uismo issue in spanish stemmer

2005-03-16 Thread Erik Hatcher
The Snowball stemmers are generated from the definitions pulled automatically from the Snowball projects CVS server. I just tried regenerating, which automatically pulls from CVS, and got this error: compile-compiler: [apply] /Users/erik/dev/lucene/java/contrib/snowball/snowball/website