Thunderstone Support Forums

Hi,

The "Any word forms" option doesn't actually seem to find "any" word form.

For example, when I select "any word forms" and search on the word "dust":

?pr=rjs_esoteric&prox=page&rorder=250&rprox=750&rdfreq=750&rwfreq=250&rlead=0&sufs=2&order=r&query=dust&submit=Submit

I get results that include dust and dusty, but Webinator fails to find other quite obvious forms such as dusting or dusted. That is quite disappointing.

What could cause such a problem? Is there a solution?

thanks,
Richard

For short roots morpheme processing can get less accurate. By default the minimum work length for suffix processing is 5 so dust won't get processed except for the trailing vowel. You can reduce the minimum to 4 by editing the search and changing "minwordlen 5" to "minwordlen 4".