amalgame/commit

improved: explanation of prefix parameter for the stemmed snowball matcher

authorJacco van Ossenbruggen
Thu May 5 13:58:43 2022 +0200
committerJacco van Ossenbruggen
Thu May 5 13:58:43 2022 +0200
commit9181bdb37aa51a5fe3f7b15265707b7365ca79fc
tree6f9ca7a3d901ef3ae06459374702615e4202eaa6
parentde5f27a0bf7a394c2a10bce048cd679307b85bee
Diff style: patch stat
diff --git a/lib/ag_modules/snowball_label_generator.pl b/lib/ag_modules/snowball_label_generator.pl
index 6c2a449..1dfc390 100644
--- a/lib/ag_modules/snowball_label_generator.pl
+++ b/lib/ag_modules/snowball_label_generator.pl
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ parameter(snowball_language, oneof(Languages), english,
 	  'Language to use for stemmer') :-
 	findall(Alg, snowball_current_algorithm(Alg), Languages).
 parameter(prefix, integer, 4,
-	  'Optimise performence by first generating candidates by matching the prefix.Input is an integer for the prefix length.').
+	  'We optimise performance by first generating candidates with a matching prefix. Parameter is an integer for the prefix length. Larger numbers are faster at the expense of recall by missing matches on labels smaller than the prefix length.').
 parameter(edit_distance, integer, 0,
 	  'When >0 allow additional differences between labels').