I was looking into that a month or so ago. Here's an article that mentions the Porter Stemming Algorithm http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/seed/docs/mypapers/stemalg.html and the official home http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/ I don't know if this is of interest. -Brian Anderson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rees" <MRees@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:14 AM Subject: FW: Reverse plural forms to singular for search > Eugene, your reply-to address is set > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Rees > Sent: 15 April 2005 09:08 > To: 'Eugene Voznesensky' > Subject: RE: Reverse plural forms to singular for search > > > That sounds like a nightmare! Assuming you are talking about English, > you might be able to make some progress by removing trailing s or es for > words. This would trim words down to their stem. You could do this with > a regular expression, which will need to do something like look for es > or s with no preceding s at the end of words (to avoid trimming words > like glass). > > It will not catch forms like medium/media and thesis/theses. You could > think about trying to trim words like that down to their stem (med in > this case). In fact, would just trimming off the last two letters and > searching for that do for you? It depends on the range of words you are > searching for. > > Good luck > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eugene Voznesensky [mailto:voznesenphp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 14 April 2005 17:22 > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Reverse plural forms to singular for search > > > I'm trying to reverse plural forms to singular ones > and use the result for search [in database]. > > Is there any third party product to integrate with > PHP, or some reliable algorithm? > > Thank you, > > Eu. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Gamma Global : Suppliers of IBM, Compaq, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, 3Com and HP Products. > > GAMMA GLOBAL (UK) LTD IS A RECOGNISED 'INVESTOR IN PEOPLE' AND AN 'ISO 9001 2000' REGISTERED COMPANY > > ********************************************************************** > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: > > This Email is confidential and may also be privileged. If you are not the > intended recipient, please notify the sender IMMEDIATELY; you should not > copy the email or use it for any purpose or disclose its contents to any > other person. > > GENERAL STATEMENT: > > Any statements made, or intentions expressed in > cessarily reflect the view of Gamma Global (UK) Ltd. Be advised that no content > herein may be held binding upon Gamma Global (UK) Ltd or any associated company > unless confirmed by the issuance of a formal contractual document or > Purchase Order, subject to our Terms and Conditions available from http://www.gammaglobal.com > > E&OE > > ********************************************************************** > ********************************************************************** > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
