Episerver Find and short forms / conjugation

Magnus Eriksson

Vote:

I have an index that's only in Swedish. If I search for the name "Tomas" Episerver Find also searches for "tom", which I guess is because it's a short form of Tomas in english? However, in swedish "tom" is another word and it's quite weird to get results for "tom" when searching for "tomas".

Is there a way to control this behaviour? I have tried setting the language in the query without luck.

Thanks,

Magnus

#207823

Oct 04, 2019 14:05

Ravindra S. Rathore

Vote:

Hi,

Have you tried the wild card/Full-text search?

Please refer below thread

https://world.episerver.com/forum/developer-forum/EPiServer-Search/Thread-Container/2018/4/only-search-full-word-using-for/

Or search for language specific term

https://world.episerver.com/documentation/developer-guides/find/NET-Client-API/searching/language-specific-queries/

Thanks

Ravindra

#207828

Edited, Oct 04, 2019 20:18

Tomas Hensrud Gulla

Vote:

I think this is a result of stemming. Read this article:
https://world.episerver.com/blogs/viktor-sahlstrom/dates/2016/82/episerver-find-stemming/

Maybe you should contact Episerver support and ask that they add my name (Tomas) to the list of words excluded from the Swedish (and Norwegian) stemming.

You may also turn off stemming entirely, specifying SearchLanguage = Language.None, like this:

SearchClient.Instance.Search<IContentData>(Language.None)
	.For("Tomas")
	.GetContentResult();

#207829

Oct 04, 2019 21:17

Magnus Eriksson - Oct 08, 2019 9:06

Thanks Tomas. I've contacted support and they can reproduce and will probably add 'tomas' to the exclusion list.

Regards,
Magnus