[Xapian-discuss] Stem doesn't remove ' from end of words that are possessive?

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:16:40AM -0500, Jarrod Roberson wrote:
> For example:
>    uncle's stems down to uncle'
> if it stemmed down to just " uncle " that would be a much more useful
> behavior I would believe.

I'm actually in the middle of integrating the latest version of the
snowball stemmers, which change the handling of apostrophes as you
suggest.  So this will be fixed in Xapian 1.0.

Cheers,
    Olly