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Searching English Singular/Plural Pairs with Typesense

TLDR Adrian sought a source for common English singular/plural pairs. Kishore Nallan recommended using synonyms for compatibility with highlighting in Typesense.

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Apr 26, 2023 (7 months ago)

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Adrian

07:47 PM

Related to this github issue. Does anybody know of a source with lists of common english singular/plurals pairs (e.g. mice - mouse)? My application searches general user uploaded data, so hard to create a custom dictionary since I don't know what users may upload ahead of time.

Apr 27, 2023 (7 months ago)

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Kishore Nallan

12:42 AM

For stemming, people use porter stemmer. However for just singular/plurals I'm not aware of any lists.

Adrian

03:04 PM

where in the flow do people apply porter stemmer? I assume it would have to be at query and index time. But if the indexed data is stemmed then the snippets would be effect I believe, which we don't want

Kishore Nallan

03:05 PM

Right so you have to index the stemmed version but also have the original version. Typesense can highlight any field even if it's not part of schema.

Adrian

03:19 PM

how does typesense highlight a field not in the schema? I don't fully follow how a stemmed query could map to highlighting the original version thats not in the schema

Kishore Nallan

03:21 PM

Yeah stemmed query will not be matched to words in text so that won't work...

Adrian

08:51 PM

do you have any other ideas on how to make this use case work with typesense? Would setting up synonyms for common plural/singular pairs be the best bet?

Apr 28, 2023 (7 months ago)

Kishore Nallan

12:53 AM

Synonyms is probably the only way I can think of doing it that's also compatible with highlighting.

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