Re: de pluralization

2005-08-05 Thread Andrew Boyd
You might want to look at stemming for "de pluralization" it boils down words to their "root" So bombs and bomming get stemmed to bomb. I'm using the snowball stemmer, which handles different languages as well as engl

Re: de pluralization

2005-08-05 Thread Dan Armbrust
Mufaddal Khumri wrote: Are there analyzers that do this already? Its not an analyzer, but the "norm" feature of this tool does a good job at getting to the normalized form of the words... http://umlslex.nlm.nih.gov/lvg/current/ http://umlslex.nlm.nih.gov/lvg/current/docs/userDoc/norm.htm

de pluralization

2005-08-04 Thread Mufaddal Khumri
Hello, I am just posting this question out here since this might be a common problem and some of you might have good pointers. Is there algorithms/api built into lucene that would help de pluralize words while indexing and/or while searching the index? Are there analyzers that do this already? T