[Snowball-discuss] german stemmer / Kürbisse

[Martin Porter]

At 09:04 PM 10/27/2009 -0400, Grant Ingersoll wrote:
>Hi Wolfgang,
>
>I can't speak for Sphinx, but I think in general with stemming you  
>will always run into these kinds of situations where words that you  
>think should stem a particular way don't.  

That is certainly true, and it may apply here (I assumed when first reading
Wolfgang's email that it did). But I had the feeling looking at the test
vocabulary that the -isse ending might benefit from a special rule --- we
shall see.

Martin