Compound Word Splitting 

Compound words are those like “bookcase” and “football” (or “holzschraube” in German) which are formed by combining two or more words. For some languages, MDM splits compounds into their component words, stems them into their base form, and then searches for variants of each component word in addition to variants of the compound word itself.

For example, if the German word “holzschraube” (meaning woodscrew) is entered as a keyword search term, MDM searches for variants of the words “holz” (wood), “schraube” (screw), and “holzschraube” and then matches any record containing any variant of any of these words.

Compound word splitting is performed for the following languages: Dutch, Finnish, German, and Swedish.

For all other languages, including English, MDM stems only the compound word itself, not its components.

For example, if the English word “bookcase” is entered as a keyword search term, MDM searches only for variants of the word “bookcase” (e.g. “bookcases”).

The language used for keyword stemming is the language selected in the Connect to MDM Repository dialog.