[LUCENE-2198] support protected words in Stemming TokenFilters

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0
• Fix Version/s: 4.0-ALPHA
• Component/s: modules/analysis
• Lucene Fields: New, Patch Available
• Assignee: Uwe Schindler
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 08/Jan/10 17:38
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 12:18
• Resolved: 27/Jan/10 11:19

Description

This is from LUCENE-1515

I propose that all stemming TokenFilters have an 'exclusion set' that bypasses any stemming for words in this set.
Some stemming tokenfilters have this, some do not.

This would be one way for Karl to implement his new swedish stemmer (as a text file of ignore words).
Additionally, it would remove duplication between lucene and solr, as they reimplement snowballfilter since it does not have this functionality.
Finally, I think this is a pretty common use case, where people want to ignore things like proper nouns in the stemming.

As an alternative design I considered a case where we generalized this to CharArrayMap (and ignoring words would mean mapping them to themselves), which would also provide a mechanism to override the stemming algorithm. But I think this is too expert, could be its own filter, and the only example of this i can find is in the Dutch stemmer.

So I think we should just provide ignore with CharArraySet, but if you feel otherwise please comment.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: LUCENE-2055 Fix buggy stemmers and Remove duplicate analysis functionality