Ishii-san,
>>> Ok, probably we need to copy the English stemming rule to the one for
>>> Japanese.
>> Pardon my ignorance here, but is the concept of stemming even relevant
>> to Japanese/Chinese/Korean? What little I know about ideographic
>> languages suggests it wouldn't work well. And surely the specific rules
>> in the Snowball project's English stemmer wouldn't work.
>
> Your undestanding is correct. English stemmer would not work for
> Japanese "non English" part.
That reminds me, don't you guys have your own full text search for
Japanese? Planning on merging it with the core code anytime soon?
--Josh