Finding plural forms

Post by **Thunderstone** » Mon Jul 21, 1997 10:25 am

We are evaluating your Webinator product right now and like it's power and
functionality.

One thing we're testing that is *supposed* to work is the ability to get
pages with the plural form of the word you are searching for.

As per the documentation, we've set the Word Form to "Some".

We have lots of pages with the word "tours" in them. However, when we
search on the word "tour" we don't get any of them in the results (38 pages
returned).

Have we misinterpreted the user documentation?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Steve Bohler

Post by **Thunderstone** » Mon Jul 21, 1997 11:46 am

The suffix / morpheme process within Webinator is set to not process word
forms under 5 characters. This setting is fixed within Webinator I,
but you may change it it Webinator II (due out Wednesday).
The limit of 5 is usually a good setting because it prevents
it form finding errant forms of short words.

To change this within Webinator II place the following tag before the
SQL for the search is executed:

<apicp minwordlen 4> 

For more info on linguistic settings see:

http://www.thunderstone.com/vortexman/node99.html