[Xapian-discuss] Stemming problem

[Richard Boulton]

Yan Hao wrote:
> I created sample files with test, tester, testing, tests. A query of 
> "test" could find all of them except "tester".

I'm not convinced that "tester" should stem to "test" - the meaning is
quite different.  Also, that would have to be a special case: for
example, a rule to convert "tester" to "test" would also convert
"master" to "mast" - which is definitely wrong.

-- 
Richard