Stemming in other languages through the API

Question

Does the Eventbrite SE stem words in languages other than English? If so, what languages are they and how is the language determined?

Answer 1

I did a quick check using the interactive docs here: http://developer.eventbrite.com/doc/events/event_search/

Spanish-language stemming seems to work in many cases - since many Spanish words are pluralized by adding an "s" to the end. A search for "gato" and "gatos" both return the same result list.

From what I understand, SOLR's basic stemming support will automatically try removing or adding the letter 's' to the end of most search keywords. I think it does the same for other common english-language word extensions, like 'ing'.

Eventbrite is putting a lot of focus on i18n, and support for international events.

I would try testing several words from the languages that you would like to support. If you find the support for stemming in a particular language to be lacking, please pass your feedback on to the Eventbrite support team.