Lucene.Net features

Question

Hi,

Am new to Lucene.Net Which is the best Analyzer to use in Lucene.Net? Also,I want to know how to use Stop words and word stemming features ?

Thanks in advance! Edward

Answer 1

I'm also new to Lucene.Net, but I do know that the Simple Analyzer omits any stop words, and indexes all tokens/works.

Here's a link to some Lucene info, by the way, the .NET version is an almost perfect, byte-for-byte rewrite of the Java version, so the Java documentation should work fine in most cases: http://darksleep.com/lucene/. There's a section in there about the three analyzers, Simple, Stop, and Standard.

I'm not sure how Lucene.Net handles word stemming, but this link, http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/15/lucene.html?page=2, demonstrates how to create your own Analyzer in Java, and uses a PorterStemFilter to do word-stemming.

...[T]he Porter stemming algorithm (or "Porter stemmer") is a process for removing the more common morphological and inflexional endings from words in English

I hope that is helpful.

Answer 2

Thanks for the info!