Hi Brad,

This has always been in my todo list but always as a secondary task.
I am not sure about snowball.

I think that the way is hack into the Stem routine (stemmer.c).

cu
Jose

On 27 Mar 2003 at 11:59, bmiele@auroraquanta.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Well i managed to procrastinate this project for 4 months!
> 
> I am getting ready to begin again and thought i would check to see if
> anyone has any new info on the multi language front. I have included
> my previous mail for all who don't wait on my every missive :)
> 
> Brad
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>  Brad Miele
>  Chief Technology Officer
>  Aurora & Quanta Productions
>  bmiele@auroraquanta.com
>  (207)828-8787 x110
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:52:54 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Brad Miele <bmiele@auroraquanta.com>
> To: swish-e@sunsite.berkeley.edu
> Subject: multi language and stemming
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have been using swish-e with great success for some time now.
> Currently we are using the prog method and XML to index our database
> of 80,000 image records, and the indexing and searching are fast and
> consistent.
> 
> We are about to begin our first spanish language site, with german to
> follow, and I am wondering if anyone has experience with using
> alternate stemming options.
> 
> I have found snowball, http://snowball.tartarus.org/ and my current
> plan is to take my incoming index data and pre stem it in the prog
> portion of the indexing, then put it in a stem_metaname field for
> indexing.
> 
> My question is really whether this s the best way to go about it. Has
> anyone come across, or built multi language stemmers that can replace
> the existing swish stemmer? Any experiencial information would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Brad
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>  Brad Miele
>  Chief Technology Officer
>  Aurora & Quanta Productions
>  bmiele@auroraquanta.com
>  (207)828-8787 x110
> 
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