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by timdellinger 3703 days ago
It's almost like they'd never heard of a Porter Stemmer.
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A porter stemmer has disadvantages too as it would combine 'training' and 'trains' (freight).
Maybe you just need something that trains your porter stemmer to avoid such mistakes.
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Because of this ambiguity, they could easily configure the stemmer to only de-pluralize instead.