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Posted by Brian A Anderson on 04/16/05 23:39
I was looking into that a month or so ago.
Here's an article that mentions the Porter Stemming Algorithm
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/seed/docs/mypapers/stemalg.html
and the official home
http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/
I don't know if this is of interest.
-Brian Anderson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Rees" <MRees@gammaglobal.com>
To: <php-general@lists.php.net>
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:14 AM
Subject: FW: [PHP] Reverse plural forms to singular for search
> Eugene, your reply-to address is set
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Rees
> Sent: 15 April 2005 09:08
> To: 'Eugene Voznesensky'
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Reverse plural forms to singular for search
>
>
> That sounds like a nightmare! Assuming you are talking about English,
> you might be able to make some progress by removing trailing s or es for
> words. This would trim words down to their stem. You could do this with
> a regular expression, which will need to do something like look for es
> or s with no preceding s at the end of words (to avoid trimming words
> like glass).
>
> It will not catch forms like medium/media and thesis/theses. You could
> think about trying to trim words like that down to their stem (med in
> this case). In fact, would just trimming off the last two letters and
> searching for that do for you? It depends on the range of words you are
> searching for.
>
> Good luck
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eugene Voznesensky [mailto:voznesenphp@sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: 14 April 2005 17:22
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: [PHP] Reverse plural forms to singular for search
>
>
> I'm trying to reverse plural forms to singular ones
> and use the result for search [in database].
>
> Is there any third party product to integrate with
> PHP, or some reliable algorithm?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Eu.
>
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