[jsword-devel] Searching in German

[Peter von Kaehne]

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:34:56 -0500
> Von: DM Smith <dmsmith555 at yahoo.com>
> An: J-Sword Developers Mailing List <jsword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Betreff: Re: [jsword-devel] Searching in German

> Manfred Bergmann wrote:
> > Hi DM.
> >
> > AFAIK, Lucene from version 2.1 can deal with leading wildcards.
> >   
> Lucene 2.3 still throws an error: "Cannot parse '*ning': '*' or '?' not 
> allowed as first character in WildcardQuery"
> 
> Perhaps, there's something that needs to be done to enable it?
> 
> > It would find "*schiff".
> > Wouldn't this be enough?
> >   
> If a German speaker searches for "schiff" would they expect to find in 
> words like donaudampfschiff?

Yes, definitely. But prefixing wildcards would be what I would rely on. And I am no developer.

> 
> Prefix wildcard search may be sufficient, but I don't know if it is 
> friendly.
> 
> In Him,
>     DM
> >
> > Regards,
> > Manfred
> >
> >
> > Am 06.02.2008 um 13:57 schrieb DM Smith:
> >
> >   
> >> FYI,
> >>
> >> A new capability is being added to Lucene to analyze German words into
> >> constituent parts. The next release, which might contain it, of Lucene
> >> will probably be in about 4 months.
> >>
> >> Donaudampfschiff would be decomposed to Donau, dampf, schiff so that
> >> you can find the word even when you only enter "Schiff".
> >>
> >> Is this something that we should add?
> >>
> >> It has been over 30 years since I studied German so I am not qualified
> >> to answer my own question.
> >>
> >> Together we achieve more for Christ,
> >> 	DM Smith
> >>
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