For the distance algorithm, check out FuzzyQuery and its dependent code.

Within Lucene's codebase is also a PorterStemFilter.  However, we'd 
like to deprecate this in favor of the Snowball stemming code that 
currently lives in the Lucene Sandbox repository.

	Erik


On Nov 4, 2004, at 9:12 PM, Yousef Ourabi wrote:

> Hey,
> On the site It says Lucence Uses Levenshtein distance
> algorithm for fuzzy matching, where is this in the
> source code? Also I would like to use the porter
> stemming algorithm for somethign else, Are there any
> documents on the Lucence implementation of Porter
> Stemmer.
>
> Best,
> Yousef
>
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