Re: TSearch2: Problems with compound words and stop words

From: Timo Haberkern <thaberkern(at)emedia-office(dot)de>
To: Oleg Bartunov <oleg(at)sai(dot)msu(dot)su>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: TSearch2: Problems with compound words and stop words
Date: 2004-11-17 14:08:54
Message-ID: 419B5B76.5080300@emedia-office.de
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sorry for the late answer, i was on holyday,

see my remarks below

Oleg Bartunov wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Timo Haberkern wrote:
>
>> Oleg,
>>
>> i use TSearch2 with PostgreSQL 7.4.6 and i applied the compoundword
>> patch yesterday. The configuration changed a little bit but the
>> result is the same. I get no compound words. I'm using the locale
>> de_DE with encoding ISO8859-1 for the database.
>>
>> I think i spell is working correctly except the compound words. If i try
>>
>> SELECT lexize('de_ispell', 'springt')
>>
>> i get
>>
>> lexize
>> {springen,springen}
>>
>> which seems correct.
>>
>>
>> But a SELECT lexize('de_ispell', 'Autobahn')
>>
>> results in
>>
>> lexize
>> {autobahn}
>>
>> i would expect {auto,bahn, autobahn}
>
>
> Hmm, have you checked 'Autobahn' in ispell dictionary ? Does
> dictionary you used supports 'Z' flag for compound words ?

Autobahn is in the ispell dictionary. What does a ispell dictionary
need to support the Z flag???

Timo

>
>
>>
>> The new configuration after the compound word patch:
>>
>
> Seems you overestimate my capabilities :)
>
>
>>
>> Actions dict_name
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=2&sortdir=asc&strings=expanded&page=1>
>> dict_init
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=3&sortdir=asc&strings=expanded&page=1>
>> dict_initoption
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=4&sortdir=asc&strings=expanded&page=1>
>> dict_lexize
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=5&sortdir=asc&strings=expanded&page=1>
>> dict_comment
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=6&sortdir=asc&strings=expanded&page=1>
>> Edit
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confeditrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=simple&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> Delete
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confdelrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=simple&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> simple dex_init(text) /NULL/
>> dex_lexize(internal,internal,integer) Simple example of dictionary.
>> Edit
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confeditrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=en_stem&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> Delete
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confdelrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=en_stem&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> en_stem snb_en_init(text)
>> /usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/english.stop
>> snb_lexize(internal,internal,integer) English Stemmer. Snowball.
>> Edit
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confeditrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=ru_stem&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> Delete
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confdelrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=ru_stem&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> ru_stem snb_ru_init(text)
>> /usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/russian.stop
>> snb_lexize(internal,internal,integer) Russian Stemmer. Snowball.
>> Edit
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confeditrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=ispell_template&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> Delete
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confdelrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=ispell_template&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> ispell_template spell_init(text) /NULL/
>> spell_lexize(internal,internal,integer) ISpell interface. Must
>> have .dict and .aff files
>> Edit
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confeditrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=synonym&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> Delete
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confdelrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=synonym&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> synonym syn_init(text) /NULL/
>> syn_lexize(internal,internal,integer) Example of synonym dictionary
>> Edit
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confeditrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=de_ispell&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> Delete
>> <http://www.rotex-service.com/phppgadmin/display.php?action=confdelrow&strings=expanded&page=1&key%5Bdict_name%5D=de_ispell&database=selina_rotex&schema=public&table=pg_ts_dict&return_url=tblproperties.php%3Fdatabase%3Dselina_rotex%26amp%3Bschema%3Dpublic%26table%3Dpg_ts_dict&return_desc=Back&sortkey=&sortdir=>
>> de_ispell spell_init(text)
>> DictFile="/usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/dictonary/german_comb.dict",
>> AffFile="/usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/dictonary/german_comb.aff",
>> StopFile="/usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/dictonary/german.stop"
>> spell_lexize(internal,internal,integer) /NULL/
>>
>>
>>
>> Timo
>>
>>
>> Oleg Bartunov wrote:
>>
>>> Timo,
>>>
>>> please, check you apply patch for compound word support.
>>> What is version of postgresql ?
>>> Does ispell dict works for non-compound words ?
>>>
>>> Oleg
>>>
>>> On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Timo Haberkern wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi there,
>>>>
>>>> i have some troubles with my TSearch2 Installation. I have done this
>>>> installation as described in
>>>> http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/oddmuse/index.cgi/Tsearch_V2_compound_words
>>>> <http://www.sai.msu.su/%7Emegera/oddmuse/index.cgi/Tsearch_V2_compound_words>
>>>>
>>>> I used the german myspell dictionary from
>>>> http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/spell_dic.html and converted
>>>> it with
>>>> my2ispell
>>>>
>>>> Nearly everything is working fine so far, except two problems:
>>>>
>>>> 1.) The stopword-file seems to be ignored: If i try it with SELECT
>>>> to_tsvector("default_german", "ein Haus") i get "ein":1 "haus":2
>>>>
>>>> ein should be a Stopword for german (and is defined the german.stop
>>>> file as
>>>> well)
>>>>
>>>> 2.) The compound words feature doesn"t work too. I have tried a lot
>>>> of words,
>>>> i.e. "Fehlermeldung" with SELECT to_tsvector("default_german",
>>>> "Fehlermeldung")
>>>> i only get
>>>> "fehlermeldung":1 but i would expect "fehler" and "meldung" as
>>>> seperated
>>>> entries. Is there anything wrong with the dictonary or my
>>>> configuration?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My current configuration:
>>>>
>>>> pg_ts_cfg:
>>>>
>>>> default default C
>>>> default_russian default ru_RU.KOI8-R
>>>> simple default NULL
>>>> default_german default de_DE.ISO8859-1
>>>> pg_ts_cfgmap:
>>>>
>>>> default_german host {simple}
>>>> default_german hword {simple}
>>>> default_german int {simple}
>>>> default_german nlhword {simple}
>>>> default_german nlpart_hword {simple}
>>>> default_german nlword {simple}
>>>> default_german part_hword {simple}
>>>> default_german sfloat {simple}
>>>> default_german uint {simple}
>>>> default_german uri {simple}
>>>> default_german url {simple}
>>>> default_german version {simple}
>>>> default_german word {simple}
>>>> default_german lpart_hword {de_ispell,german_snowball}
>>>> default_german lword {de_ispell,german_snowball}
>>>> default_german lhword {de_ispell,german_snowball}
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> pg_ts_dict:
>>>>
>>>> de_ispell | 17166 |
>>>> DictFile="/usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/dictonary/german.dict",
>>>> AffFile="/usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/dictonary/german.aff",
>>>> StopFile="/usr/local/pgsql/share/contrib/dictonary/german.stop"
>>>> | 17167 | NULL
>>>> german_snowball | 17357 | NULL | 17162 | Snowball stemmer for
>>>> german
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone help me?
>>>>
>>>> regards
>>>>
>>>> Timo
>>>>
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>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Oleg
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>>
>
> Regards,
> Oleg
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