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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:39:54 -0400
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Subject: Re: arabic analyzer
From: Robert Muir <rcmuir@gmail.com>
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Walid, thanks for your feedback.

fyi I created an issue with some minor improvements (such as lam-lam
prefix) to the arabic analyzer:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-1758

I also tried to improve the stopwords list, but your Arabic is surely
much better than mine. If you are interested, have a look perhaps you
could double check :)


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:05 PM, walid<walid.bakkar@elementn.com> wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> you are so right, plurals based on prefixes and suffixes are working.
> Plurals based on inserted "=D9=88" do not (=D8=A8=D8=A7=D8=A8 and =D8=A7=
=D8=A8=D9=88=D8=A8).
>
> The few words i had tested where all of the "insert" type and not the
> prefix/suffix.
>
> thank you :)
>
> -walid
>
> On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 15:08 -0400, Robert Muir wrote:
>> > the fact is, plural (as an example) is not supported, and that is one =
of
>> > the most common things that a person doing some search will expect to
>>
>> Walid, I'm not sure this is true. Many plurals are supported
>> (certainly not exceptional cases or broken plurals).
>> This is no different than the other language analyzers in lucene, even
>> english stemmers: the most common forms are grouped together and thats
>> about all you can say :)
>>
>> maybe in the future we can improve it though for your particular
>> concern, add simple dictionary mappings for at least the most common
>> broken plurals, something like that.
>>
>
>
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