Bill Moseley wrote on 01/29/2009 08:58 AM:

> You don't enable it.  If the index was *created* with stemming then
> that's what is used in the API.
> 
>     $fuzzy_word = $swish->Fuzzify( $indexname, $word );
> 
> You have to specify the index so it knows which stemming algorithm to uses.
> 
>     $fuzzy_word = $result->fuzzy_word( $word )
> 
> That doesn't need to know the index because it's a method on the
> $result object and a result is tied to a given index.  That is, it
> implicitly knows what index to use.
> 
> (Peter, those methods have changed, right?  Seems in the test.t file
> they return a Wordlist instead.  Sounds familiar. Is that because
> Snowball can sometimes return two stems?)

The methods have not changed, from what I can see. The Fuzzify() method
was added in SWISH::API 0.04 so that you could stem a word without
needing to search first. But it calls the same C lib code underneath as
$result->FuzzyWord does.

I believe it's Double Metaphone that can return multiple results and for
API consistency the fuzzy methods always return a WordList even though
it usually only has one item. But that decision predates me.

Saravanan,
http://dev.swish-e.org/browser/swish-e/trunk/perl/t/test.t
contains the swish_stem() test, which you can check for usage.

>> *Question 2:-*
>>
>> $swish -> Fuzzify( $index, "lovely" );
>>
>> when i print this, i'm getting output as "love"
>>
>> But  i should get* love, lovely, loves, loving* as a output. Is it possible
>> with fuzzify?
> 
> No, you should not get that.  That's not how the stemmer works.  The
> stemmer gives you the stem, not all variations of the word.

exactly. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming for example.


-- 
Peter Karman  .  peter(at)not-real.peknet.com  .  http://peknet.com/

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