wildcard newbie question

[Alessandro Senserini <al...@plateau.com>]

I have a text field type called courseTitle and it contains 

 

Struts 2

 

If I search courseTitle:strut*  I get the documents but if I search with
courseTitle:struts* I do not get any results.

Could you please explain why?

 

Thanks.


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RE: wildcard newbie question

[Ard Schrijvers <a....@hippo.nl>]

> > I have a text field type called courseTitle and it contains
> > 
> > Struts 2
> > 
> > If I search courseTitle:strut*  I get the documents but if I search 
> > with
> > courseTitle:struts* I do not get any results.
> > 
> > Could you please explain why?
> 
> Just a guess: It might be because of stemming. Do you have 
> the same effect with words that don't end in an 's' or similar?
> If my guess is correct, only 'strut' is in the index, not 'struts'.

I have seen this behavior quite often before indeed. I understand why it
does not give a hit because of stemming, but in the end, it seems a
little wrong to me. 'stemm*' should match 'stemmed' basically.
Obviously, using an analyzer without stemming solves the problem, but
then again you do not have stemming

-Ard

> 
> -Michael
> 
> 

Re: wildcard newbie question

[Michael Lackhoff <mi...@lackhoff.de>]

On 31.01.2008 00:31 Alessandro Senserini wrote:

> I have a text field type called courseTitle and it contains 
> 
> Struts 2
> 
> If I search courseTitle:strut*  I get the documents but if I search with
> courseTitle:struts* I do not get any results.
> 
> Could you please explain why?

Just a guess: It might be because of stemming. Do you have the same 
effect with words that don't end in an 's' or similar?
If my guess is correct, only 'strut' is in the index, not 'struts'.

-Michael

Re: wildcard newbie question

[Mike Klaas <mi...@gmail.com>]

On 30-Jan-08, at 3:31 PM, Alessandro Senserini wrote:

> I have a text field type called courseTitle and it contains
>
>
>
> Struts 2
>
>
>
> If I search courseTitle:strut*  I get the documents but if I search  
> with
> courseTitle:struts* I do not get any results.
>
> Could you please explain why?

Wildcard queries are not analyzed (see <http://wiki.apache.org/lucene- 
java/LuceneFAQ#head-133cf44dd3dff3680c96c1316a663e881eeac35a>).  In  
your case, turning off stemming for the field should fix the problem.

-Mike

Re: wildcard newbie question

[Erik Hatcher <er...@ehatchersolutions.com>]

My hunch is that your courseTitle field is being stemmed.  What type  
is it and what is the definition of that type?

"Struts" indexed with stemming would be "strut", thus no "struts*"  
words exist in the index.  It's a tricky situation to deal with  
wildcards with such indexing analysis.

	Erik


On Jan 30, 2008, at 6:31 PM, Alessandro Senserini wrote:

> I have a text field type called courseTitle and it contains
>
>
>
> Struts 2
>
>
>
> If I search courseTitle:strut*  I get the documents but if I search  
> with
> courseTitle:struts* I do not get any results.
>
> Could you please explain why?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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