[jsword-devel] Stem searching

Chris Burrell chris at burrell.me.uk
Thu Jul 12 05:17:53 MST 2012


Thanks Troy. That helps put the task in perspective... An alternative would
possibly be to store both strong and morphology indexes in a relational
database. Then have a table mapping all the data together. I guess the
mapping table would be based on one version of the Bible only.

Cheers
Chris


On 11 July 2012 01:09, Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> wrote:

>  Chris,
>
> We're toyed around with the best way to add lemma+morph searching in SWORD
> but haven't finalized anything yet.
>
> Indexing Morphology codes won't helps.  This would give you 2 fields which
> need to be used together.
>
> For example, if you wish to find λογος only in the nominative within 3
> words of any present, active, indicative, 2 persons singular or plural
> verb, you could not satisfy your search.
>
> Believe it or not, end users of tools like Bibleworks seem quite happy to
> learn odd syntax like:
>
>
> "λογος@* *@PAI2?"~3
>
>
> Of course GUI tools to help build that syntax for them is also desired.
>
> This it the direction we're heading, but would require lemma encoding
> changed from strongs to lexical form.
>
> Presently we could nearly obtain this by building an index as (from the
> start of John 1.1):
>
> G1722 at PREP G746 at N-DSF G2258 at V-IXI-3S
>
> But this would require users to know strongs numbers rather than lexical
> form, which would almost certainly need a GUI to help them build the search
> syntax.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Troy
>
>
>
>
>
> On 07/10/2012 11:41 PM, Chris Burrell wrote:
>
> Hello
>
>  Does anyone know/tried some kind of stem search with JSword? Is it
> implemented? Or would we need to do a bit more work there?
>
>  Chris
>
>
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