nextcloud / nextcloud/fulltextsearch
Issue with stemming for single-plural words?
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Description
When you search for a word that exists in plural in a document (English language), i.e. "individuals", you only find it when searching for singular, i.e. "individual"

when you search for plural, i.e. "individuals" no entries are found even though the word is in the document.

Text is fully extracted correctly:

Above example applies to all other plural words as well, i.e. "videos", etc. which are all in the default sample docs that come with a fresh NC installation.
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Research direction
No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the English full-text search with the sample documents, comparing singular and plural queries such as “individual” and “individuals”; done means plural searches return documents containing the plural word, as singular searches already do.
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Assessment
- Domain
- search
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100