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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:09:46 -0400
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Subject: Re: Reverse stemmer?
From: Erick Erickson <erickerickson@gmail.com>
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Why do you care? That is, what is the problem you want to solve with a
reversestemmer? Note that if you STORE the field, the *original* text is
available, storing
and indexing are orthogonal. So if all you want is to get the original text
back,
you can freely index with a stemming analyzer, but just fetch the stored
data back and it won't be stemmed....

Erick

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:31 AM, David Leangen <apache@leangen.net> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I've been using Lucene in a very basic way for some time now, and I'm
> starting to take advantage of some of the linguistic capabilities only now.
>
> I am making use of the snowball analyzer for stemming, and it works very
> well.
>
>
> Question: is there any such thing as a "reverse stemmer"? In other words,
> given the stem of a word, is there any algorithm to find the original word?
> Or is this just fantasy? ;-)
>
> Now, I understand that there is a 1:n mapping of stems:words. I can deal
> with that.
>
>
> Thanks!
> =David
>
>
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