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Subject:    Re: Stemming german words
From:       Markus Fischer <markus () fischer ! name>
Date:       2006-01-31 21:32:59
Message-ID: 43DFD78B.4060300 () fischer ! name
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Jonathan,

what should I say, I'm feeling like an idiot now. Of course you're 
right. This actually solves the issue ;)

thanks and sorry for wasting time,
- Markus

Jonathan O'Connor wrote:
> Markus,
> As I'm sure you know, "sucht" is also an inflection of "suchen", e.g. 
> "er sucht etwas". Sadly, you may be able to fix this one problem, but 
> there will be hundreds of other problems too. Stemmers are never 
> perfect. You just have to live with it.
> 
> Most users won't have a problem with that. If they want want to search 
> for addiction, then they will probably add "drug" or "alcohol", etc... 
> to the search.
> Ciao,
> Jonathan O'Connor
> XCOM Dublin
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> Hi,
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> I'm currently using the GermanStemmer and it works well. However today
> I've found two words which get stemmed to the same stemm-word.
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> "Suche" and "Sucht" both get stemmed to the same "such" it seems,
> however they've completely different meanings in german (Suche = the
> Search, Sucht => addicttion).
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> Is there a way to tune the stemmer or are there alternatives available
> or should I look for another stemmer for the german language?
> 
> thanks for any pointers,
> - Markus
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