# Snowball Analyzer question **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [August 22, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snowball-analyzer-question/8807 "2012-08-22T04:16:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Linton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/71e660/32.png) [@Linton](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Linton)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snowball-analyzer-question/8807/1 "2012-08-22T04:16:02Z")
I'm using the snowball analyzer to stem words but there are a couple of words during testing that are not working well. If put in Mountain Biking or Mountain Bikes then I end up with Mountain Bike but if put Mountain Biker it gets stored and Mountain Biker not Mountain Bike. Is there another tokenizer or analyzer I should be using in conjunction with snowball? Thanks Todd ---
**Author:** ![vineeth\_mohan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@vineeth\_mohan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/vineeth_mohan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 10:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snowball-analyzer-question/8807/2 "2012-08-24T10:42:25Z")
I dont think this is the right place to ask that question. There is porter stem stemmer which is the default one. Try that one also. Thanks Vineeth On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Linton [trlinton@gmail.com](mailto:trlinton@gmail.com) wrote: > I'm using the snowball analyzer to stem words but there are a couple of > words > during testing that are not working well. > > If put in Mountain Biking or Mountain Bikes then I end up with Mountain > Bike > but if put Mountain Biker it gets stored and Mountain Biker not Mountain > Bike. > > Is there another tokenizer or analyzer I should be using in conjunction > with > snowball? > > Thanks > Todd > > -- > View this message in context: > [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Snowball-Analyzer-question-tp4021955.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Snowball-Analyzer-question-tp4021955.html) > Sent from the Elasticsearch Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). > > -- -- ---
**Author:** ![Ivan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/df788c/32.png) [@Ivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ivan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2012, 6:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snowball-analyzer-question/8807/3 "2012-08-24T18:45:56Z")
Snowball and porter stemmers will not stem 'er' words. If you have a handful of cases, you can use the stemming override filter to manually manage the list of words. -- Ivan On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Linton [trlinton@gmail.com](mailto:trlinton@gmail.com) wrote: > I'm using the snowball analyzer to stem words but there are a couple of words > during testing that are not working well. > > If put in Mountain Biking or Mountain Bikes then I end up with Mountain Bike > but if put Mountain Biker it gets stored and Mountain Biker not Mountain > Bike. > > Is there another tokenizer or analyzer I should be using in conjunction with > snowball? > > Thanks > Todd > > -- > View this message in context: [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Snowball-Analyzer-question-tp4021955.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Snowball-Analyzer-question-tp4021955.html) > Sent from the Elasticsearch Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). > > -- -- ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/snowball-analyzer-question/8807/4 "2017-07-06T03:15:08Z")