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1. Difference between Lucene stemmers: EnglishStemmer, PorterStemmer, LovinsStemmer    stackoverflow.com

Have anybody compared these stemmers from Lucene (package org.tartarus.snowball.ext): EnglishStemmer, PorterStemmer, LovinsStemmer? What are the strong/weak points of algorithms behind them? When each of them should be used? Or maybe there are some more algorithms ...

2. How to configure stemming in Solr?    stackoverflow.com

I add to solr index: "American". When I search by "America" there is no results. How should schema.xml be configured to get results? current configuration:

<fieldType name="text" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100">
      ...

3. Stemming English words with Lucene    stackoverflow.com

I'm processing some English texts in a Java application, and I need to stem them. For example, from the text "amenities/amenity" I need to get "amenit". The function looks like:

String stemTerm(String term){
  ...

4. Solr - one word phrase search to avoid stemming    stackoverflow.com

I have stemming enabled in my Solr instance, I had assumed that in order to perform an exact word search without disabling stemming, it would be as simple as putting the ...

5. Solr question about exact word search    stackoverflow.com

I have a question which closely relates to the below Solr - one word phrase search to avoid stemming In my schema I have a field

<field name="text" type="textgen" indexed="true" stored="true" required="true"/>

6. Solr search/faceting results have strange behaviour: i only get "stemmed" strings (hope it's correct definition)    stackoverflow.com

Sorry for a title that bad, but i didn't know how to describe my problem. I'm using sunburnt (python interface) to query solr within my django app. When i'm searching, everything is ok, ...

7. In Solr, why is 'built' not being stemmed to 'build' but 'building' is?    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to figure out two things in this posting:

1. Why is 'built' NOT being stemmed to 'build' even though the field type definition has a stemmer defined. However, 'building' is being stemmed to ...