[Wasabi Proposal] XML desktop query language

Michal Pryc Michal.Pryc at Sun.COM
Wed Jan 17 02:30:01 PST 2007


Jean-Francois Dockes wrote:
> Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen writes:
>  > Right. Let's not get lost over stemming issues since it is not a huge deal
>  > (i'm not saying it is not important).
>  > 
>  > Can we agree on the following: Stemming will be assumed to be on, but it is
>  > not catastrophic if an engine just don't do stemming at all. Engines can
>  > provide an extension to explicitly turn stemming off. In other words - keep
>  > things as they are (regarding stemming).
>
> There seems to be strong preferences about stemming being on or off by
> default. So why not let the default depend entirely on the backend ?
>
>   
I would say that it shoud depend on the backend, what if the backend is 
not using steeming or it's using differend
method e.g. fuzzy search.

-- 
best
Michal



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