Solr search based on stemming

Question

I have a scenario where I have used SnowballPorterFilterFactory to stem that field.

Now it stores all talent types like ex: Actor, Dancer, Singer, Model, etc.

This stemming helps me to search using

Actor in mumbai

AND

Actors in mumbai

Both.

Now I want to search with

show all who sings in mumbai

How can I match sing with singer ??

It does not matching for now ..

Answer 1

Use the "Analysis" page of the Solr admin interface to see what stemming is being performed for singer. This allows you to see each step for both terms, and what the end result for both sing and singer is.

The difference is probably casued by the fact that they're not actually the same word - singer is a subject, while sing is a verb, and stemming them to the same word might give bad results. You may get better results by using a synonym word list in this case. The correct stemming of singer is probably just singer (singer, singers).