[Xapian-discuss] Giving a choice of stemming

[Francis Irving]

We're not quite sure how much we like stemming yet, and I'd like to
index a database so we have a choice at query time.

In particular, I'd like to be able to make it so a plain query:
    fox hunting
would do stemming, but one in quotes (using QueryParser) would match
only exact words:
    "Mark Fisher"

Do I need to add postings with a prefix "stemmed:" or "unstemmed:" for
every word, and munge inputs, or is there a cleverer way?  More
generally, what are your guys experiences of users feelings about
stemming?

Francis
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