When searching for the book "The Sawdust Dream", if you search for "sawdust dream", you get the item in the results. When you search for "sawdust dreams", you get nothing. It would be great if Koha would check for singular iterations of words used.
Agreed
I believe the Stemming feature with Zebra should already take care of this. Is it active in your instance and have you tried some searches?
A note here: not all languages are as lucky as English where it's about added s most of the time :)
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #2) > I believe the Stemming feature with Zebra should already take care of this. > Is it active in your instance and have you tried some searches? We are using ElasticSearch, not Zebra. I have no understanding of the inner-workings of all of this, but as far as my knowledge goes, this doesn't apply. Or am I wrong?
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #3) > A note here: not all languages are as lucky as English where it's about > added s most of the time :) Even so, this would be a step in the right direction. A rule applied for specific languages that would improve searching.
Hi Christopher, as I said, I think the stemming feature already does this. Please try it!
I think it doesn't apply for Elasticsearch, but not completely sure. Changing component and adding a hint to the description.
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #7) > I think it doesn't apply for Elasticsearch, but not completely sure. > Changing component and adding a hint to the description. Yeah at a glance client-side stemming in Koha wasn't implemented for Elasticsearch. It looks like Elasticsearch can be configured to use its own stemmer token filters though.
I don't know if this can help anyone. We use snowball_french as stemmer. It works really well (with some exceptions). https://snowballstem.org/ In index_config.yaml, under analyzer_standard, there is snowball_french under the filters analyzer_standard: tokenizer: icu_tokenizer filter: - icu_folding - snowball_french and under filter (before char_filter), there is snowball_french filter: snowball_french: type: snowball language: french