Re: Tsearch2 & Hebrew - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Yonatan Ben-Nes wrote:

> No, I didn't thought that it will be useful if it won't be accompanied by an
> hebrew stemmer which will work with it... I'm wrong?
>

ispell and stemmer are doing the same job, so you may use

ispell,simple configuration instead of "ideal"  one: ispell, stemmer

Of course, some words will not recognized and will leave as is.
Also, you may write very simple stemmer using collection of very common
endings.

Oleg

>
> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Yonatan Ben-Nes wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>> Well my problem was that I didn't know if Tsearch2 can work on hebrew data
>>> without a fitting stemmer, my current solution is to use the 'simple'
>>> dictionary so no lexem is returned.
>>> I wonder if there is an hebrew stemmer which I can use but I can't seem to
>>> find one, so sadly one of the best features of Tsearch2 isn't working for
>>> me.
>>>
>>
>> Do you use hebrew ispell dictionary ?
>>
>>>
>>> If I'm wrong please let me know :)
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot in advance,
>>>
>>> Yonatan Ben-Nes
>>>
>>>
>>> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>>>
>>>> You need to provide more details.
>>>>
>>>> Oleg
>>>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Jonatan,
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 2006-08-30 19:09:19, schrieb Yonatan Ben-Nes:
>>>>>> I want to use Tsearch2 for a current project I have but I can't seem to
>>>>>> find a way to implement it on hebrew content.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have the same problem since I have an UTF-8 Database of arround
>>>>> 380 GByte (growing 100 MByte per day) in over 60 languages and
>>>>> can not search in arabic, farsi and hebrew.
>>>>>
>>>>> It seems, that there is NO solution for those three languages
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings
>>>>>    Michelle Konzack
>>>>>    Systemadministrator
>>>>>    Tamay Dogan Network
>>>>>    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Regards,
>>>>         Oleg
>>>> _____________________________________________________________
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>>
>>     Regards,
>>         Oleg
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     Regards,
         Oleg
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Oleg Bartunov, Research Scientist, Head of AstroNet (www.astronet.ru),
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Russia
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