[jsword-devel] Stem searching

Sijo Cherian sijo.cherian at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 15:15:35 MST 2012


Chris,
I was talking about functionality already present in JSword.
For english bibles, stemming is done while indexing & query. So forms like
"love" & "loving" should match.
See:
http://www.crosswire.org/jsword/api/org/crosswire/jsword/index/lucene/analysis/EnglishLuceneAnalyzer.html
http://www.crosswire.org/jsword/api/org/crosswire/jsword/index/lucene/analysis/AnalyzerFactory.html

best,
-sijo-


On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Chris Burrell <chris at burrell.me.uk> wrote:

> Thanks Sijo. Does this mean you've added some Lucene code on top of what
> JSword gives us out of the box? Sorry, I'm not hugely familiar with Lucene
> (yet!)
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
>
> On 10 July 2012 22:52, Sijo Cherian <sijo.cherian at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Chris,
>>
>> We do the stemming for english/latin langs using basic lucene analyzers.
>>
>> A lot more work can be done for other languages.
>> Type of stemming is a index time (and query time) decision, so providing
>> multiple custom analyzers for same language can get complicate to manage
>> and configure.
>>
>> -Sijo
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Chris Burrell <chris at burrell.me.uk>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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>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Sijo
>>
>
>


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Regards,
Sijo
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