[sword-devel] [jsword-devel] Stem searching

[Daniel Owens]

Please let me know if there is anything non- or semi-technical I can do 
(testing, etc.) to help with this. I was surprised to learn that BW (and 
Logos 4, I would add) uses such arcane syntax, but it really is powerful 
once you learn it. I wonder how many users simply do not make use of the 
powerful tools at their fingertips because they are intimidated by the 
syntax. The only person I know who uses this to great effect is a PHP 
programmer with a computer science degree...

Daniel

On 07/10/2012 05:09 PM, Troy A. Griffitts 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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