Thread: improved support for compounds in tsearch2

improved support for compounds in tsearch2

From
Oleg Bartunov
Date:
Hi there,

we just submitted to CVS several changes to tsearch2:

1. change struct {} WordEntryPos to typedef uint16,  for details see   http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/msg.html?mid=2035188
2. improved support for compound words
  "A compound is a word containing a stem that is made up of more than one root"   to_tsquery() now make use of roots
ifdictionary  (should support 'compoundwords' flag, check .aff    file) returns them for compound word. Example:
 


regression=# select to_tsquery( 'fotballklubber');                   to_tsquery
------------------------------------------------ 'fotball' & 'klubb' | 'fot' & 'ball' & 'klubb' 
(1 row)
 Bad thing is that API to tsearch2 dictionaries was changed ! See http://www.pgsql.ru/db/mw/msg.html?mid=2039406 for
detailsand  http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/oddmuse/index.cgi/Tsearch_V2_compound_words for introduction about compounds
supportin tsearch2.
 

We're badly needed testers of compounds support (german, norway,... languages),
patch for V8.0 release is available 
http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/expand_query_8.0.patch.gz

    Regards,        Oleg
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Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
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Re: improved support for compounds in tsearch2

From
Christopher Kings-Lynne
Date:
> We're badly needed testers of compounds support (german, norway,... 
> languages),
> patch for V8.0 release is available 
> http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/expand_query_8.0.patch.gz 

What I'm interested in is compound word support for English.  For 
example, if a food has the word 'beefburger' in it, how to I index that 
as both 'beef' and 'burger'...

Chris


Re: improved support for compounds in tsearch2

From
Oleg Bartunov
Date:
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>> We're badly needed testers of compounds support (german, norway,... 
>> languages),
>> patch for V8.0 release is available 
>> http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/expand_query_8.0.patch.gz 
>
> What I'm interested in is compound word support for English.  For example, if 
> a food has the word 'beefburger' in it, how to I index that as both 'beef' 
> and 'burger'...

Once you get ispell english dictionary with 'compoundwords'  support,
or just write custom dictionary.

>
> Chris
>
    Regards,        Oleg
_____________________________________________________________
Oleg Bartunov, sci.researcher, hostmaster of AstroNet,
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University (Russia)
Internet: oleg@sai.msu.su, http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/
phone: +007(095)939-16-83, +007(095)939-23-83