Equating non plural words

aagarwal · Post by **aagarwal** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:03 pm

I know there is equivalence file to match synonyms and we do use it for words like "lawyer" and "Attorney".

However, there are cases like "plumber" and "plumbing" which are part of the same base word. Is there some way of making them equal without having to write all such cases in the equivalence file?

Would plural processing mechanism help in this? Is it advisable to use plural processing rather than equivalence in such cases? Is there any other mechanism to automatically handle such cases?

We have minword=3, difsumrm=0 and suffix list s, es, se

Post by **mark** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:57 pm

Suffix processing with the default suffix list, instead of your abbreviated one, is the normally recommended way of handing word forms.

aagarwal · Post by **aagarwal** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:12 pm

We had to put "se" in the list so that we could match "horse" and "horses" which wasnt working otherwise. If "se" is not part of the default suffix list, can we use the default and add to it? How do we use the default?

Post by **mark** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:07 pm

The default suffix list is

' anced ancer ances atery enced encer ences ibler ment ness tion able less sion ance ious ible ence ship ical ward ally atic aged ager ages ated ater ates iced icer ices ided ider ides ised ises ived ives ized izer izes ncy ing ion ity ous ful tic ish ial ory ism age ist ate ary ual ize ide ive ier ess ant ise ily ice ery ent end ics est ed red res ly er al at ic ty ry en nt re th es ul s