[Snowball-discuss] Snowball Analyzer for Greek

[Robert Muir]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Christophe Maillard
<christophe.maillard.1989 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
>
> I tried the Snowball Analyzer in English, and that worked perfectly fine.
> But now, I would like to try it for Greek, but when I compile the sources, I
> get the following exception :
>
>     java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.tartarus.snowball.ext.GreekStemmer
>
> What's strange is that the file
> org\apache\lucene\analysis\el\GreekStemmer.class exists, but the file
> org\tartarus\snowball\ext\GreekStemmer.class does not. I tried to copy the
> existing file into this directory (and re-JARed), but I had another
> exception.
>
> I'm using lucene 3.1.
>

This is not a snowball stemmer: its just ordinary java code. you need
to use GreekStemFilter to use it (or GreekAnalyzer)