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From: Shashi Kant <skant@sloan.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:19:07 -0500
Message-ID: <4d19a3631001090419m54f58037u97c480dbd9604ec2@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Search query problem
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Couldn't you just mod the PorterStemmer class for your requirements?
(we did and provided it a list of ignore words & phrases specific to
our needs)

On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Jamie <jamie@stimulussoft.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Is there another stemmer we can use that is perhaps not as aggressive as =
the
> Porter Stemmer. i.e. the stemming could remove ing's, er's, but not
> something so significant as to convert ""Lowe's" to "Low"
>
> Thanks
>
> Jamie
>
> Will Murnane wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 16:27, Jamie <jamie@stimulussoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Ian / Will
>>>
>>> Thanks. Surely, the Porter Stemmer should not stem proper noun's. i.e. =
it
>>> could check the capitalization of the first letter of a word and whethe=
r
>>> or
>>> not the word is the start of sentence. If so, it could choose not apply
>>> any
>>> stemming. Or am I completely out of whack?
>>>
>>
>> Look again: you're downcasing the terms before the Porter filter ever
>> sees them (which is, AIUI, necessary). =A0You might do well to combine
>> the tokenizing and downcasing step with some heuristic to find proper
>> nouns and not downcase or stem them.
>>
>> Will
>>
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