feat: proper multi-language stemming

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2026-02-11 09:39:30 +01:00
parent e66c64350f
commit 0b5efbb5e1
8 changed files with 337 additions and 73 deletions

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@@ -318,18 +318,38 @@ export class DatabaseConnection {
}
// Create FTS5 virtual table for full-text search
// Only stores: id (unindexed, for lookups) and content (stemmed text for matching)
// Post data for display comes from the posts table or filesystem files
await this.localClient.execute(`
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS posts_fts USING fts5(
id UNINDEXED,
title,
content,
excerpt,
tags,
categories,
content_rowid=rowid
);
`);
// Migration: Check if old FTS schema (with multiple columns) exists and recreate
// Old schema had: id, title, content, excerpt, tags, categories, content_stemmed
// New schema has: id, content (stemmed only)
try {
// Try to query old columns - if they exist, we need to migrate
await this.localClient.execute("SELECT title FROM posts_fts LIMIT 0");
// Old schema exists - recreate with new simple schema
console.log('Migrating posts_fts table to simplified schema...');
await this.localClient.execute('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS posts_fts');
await this.localClient.execute(`
CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE posts_fts USING fts5(
id UNINDEXED,
content,
content_rowid=rowid
);
`);
console.log('FTS table migrated - rebuild index required');
} catch {
// Old columns don't exist - we have the new schema or no data, all good
}
// Create default project if none exists
const existingProjects = await this.localClient.execute('SELECT COUNT(*) as count FROM projects');
if (existingProjects.rows[0] && (existingProjects.rows[0].count as number) === 0) {

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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { app } from 'electron';
import { getDatabase } from '../database';
import { posts, Post, NewPost, postLinks } from '../database/schema';
import { taskManager, Task } from './TaskManager';
import { stemText, stemQuery, SupportedLanguage } from './stemmer';
export interface PostData {
id: string;
@@ -46,8 +47,6 @@ export interface SearchResult {
title: string;
slug: string;
excerpt?: string;
matchSnippet?: string;
rank?: number;
}
export interface PostFilter {
@@ -73,11 +72,74 @@ export interface PaginationOptions {
export class PostEngine extends EventEmitter {
private currentProjectId: string = 'default';
private searchLanguage: SupportedLanguage = 'english';
constructor() {
super();
}
/**
* Set the language used for full-text search stemming.
* Affects both indexing and query processing.
*/
setSearchLanguage(language: SupportedLanguage): void {
this.searchLanguage = language;
}
/**
* Get the current search language.
*/
getSearchLanguage(): SupportedLanguage {
return this.searchLanguage;
}
/**
* Update the FTS index for a post.
* Updates the FTS index for a post.
* Stores only the stemmed content (combining title, excerpt, content, tags, categories).
* Only the post ID is returned from searches - actual post data comes from DB/files.
*/
private async updateFTSIndex(post: {
id: string;
title: string;
content: string;
excerpt?: string;
tags: string[];
categories: string[];
}): Promise<void> {
const client = getDatabase().getLocalClient();
if (!client) return;
// Delete existing entry
await client.execute({ sql: 'DELETE FROM posts_fts WHERE id = ?', args: [post.id] });
// Combine all searchable fields and stem them
const allText = [
post.title,
post.excerpt || '',
post.content,
post.tags.join(' '),
post.categories.join(' '),
].join(' ');
const stemmedContent = stemText(allText, this.searchLanguage);
// Insert with only id and stemmed content
await client.execute({
sql: 'INSERT INTO posts_fts (id, content) VALUES (?, ?)',
args: [post.id, stemmedContent],
});
}
/**
* Delete a post from the FTS index.
*/
private async deleteFTSIndex(id: string): Promise<void> {
const client = getDatabase().getLocalClient();
if (!client) return;
await client.execute({ sql: 'DELETE FROM posts_fts WHERE id = ?', args: [id] });
}
private getPostsBaseDir(): string {
const userDataPath = app.getPath('userData');
return path.join(userDataPath, 'projects', this.currentProjectId, 'posts');
@@ -289,12 +351,7 @@ export class PostEngine extends EventEmitter {
await db.insert(posts).values(dbPost);
// Update FTS index
if (client) {
await client.execute({
sql: 'INSERT INTO posts_fts (id, title, content, excerpt, tags, categories) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)',
args: [post.id, post.title, post.content, post.excerpt || '', post.tags.join(' '), post.categories.join(' ')],
});
}
await this.updateFTSIndex(post);
this.emit('postCreated', post);
return post;
@@ -369,13 +426,7 @@ export class PostEngine extends EventEmitter {
.where(eq(posts.id, id));
// Update FTS index
if (client) {
await client.execute({ sql: 'DELETE FROM posts_fts WHERE id = ?', args: [id] });
await client.execute({
sql: 'INSERT INTO posts_fts (id, title, content, excerpt, tags, categories) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)',
args: [updated.id, updated.title, updated.content, updated.excerpt || '', updated.tags.join(' '), updated.categories.join(' ')],
});
}
await this.updateFTSIndex(updated);
// Update post links if content changed
if (data.content) {
@@ -412,9 +463,7 @@ export class PostEngine extends EventEmitter {
await db.delete(posts).where(eq(posts.id, id));
// Delete from FTS index
if (client) {
await client.execute({ sql: 'DELETE FROM posts_fts WHERE id = ?', args: [id] });
}
await this.deleteFTSIndex(id);
this.emit('postDeleted', id);
return true;
@@ -618,28 +667,34 @@ export class PostEngine extends EventEmitter {
if (!client) return [];
try {
// Stem the query for multilingual matching
const stemmedQuery = stemQuery(query, this.searchLanguage);
// Search the stemmed content, only return post IDs
const result = await client.execute({
sql: `SELECT id, title, excerpt, snippet(posts_fts, 2, '<mark>', '</mark>', '...', 32) as snippet, rank
FROM posts_fts
WHERE posts_fts MATCH ?
ORDER BY rank
LIMIT 50`,
args: [query],
sql: `SELECT id FROM posts_fts WHERE posts_fts MATCH ? ORDER BY rank LIMIT 50`,
args: [stemmedQuery],
});
// Filter to current project and fetch actual post data
const projectPosts = await this.getAllPostsUnpaginated();
const projectPostIds = new Set(projectPosts.map(p => p.id));
const projectPostMap = new Map(projectPosts.map(p => [p.id, p]));
return result.rows
.filter(row => projectPostIds.has(row.id as string))
.map(row => ({
id: row.id as string,
title: row.title as string,
slug: '', // Will be filled in by caller if needed
excerpt: row.excerpt as string | undefined,
matchSnippet: row.snippet as string | undefined,
rank: row.rank as number | undefined,
}));
const searchResults: SearchResult[] = [];
for (const row of result.rows) {
const postId = row.id as string;
const post = projectPostMap.get(postId);
if (post) {
searchResults.push({
id: post.id,
title: post.title,
slug: post.slug,
excerpt: post.excerpt,
});
}
}
return searchResults;
} catch (error) {
console.error('Search failed:', error);
return [];
@@ -816,13 +871,7 @@ export class PostEngine extends EventEmitter {
.where(eq(posts.id, id));
// Update FTS index
if (client) {
await client.execute({ sql: 'DELETE FROM posts_fts WHERE id = ?', args: [id] });
await client.execute({
sql: 'INSERT INTO posts_fts (id, title, content, excerpt, tags, categories) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)',
args: [published.id, published.title, published.content, published.excerpt || '', published.tags.join(' '), published.categories.join(' ')],
});
}
await this.updateFTSIndex(published);
// Update post links based on published content
await this.updatePostLinks(id, published.content);
@@ -886,13 +935,7 @@ export class PostEngine extends EventEmitter {
};
// Update FTS index
if (client) {
await client.execute({ sql: 'DELETE FROM posts_fts WHERE id = ?', args: [id] });
await client.execute({
sql: 'INSERT INTO posts_fts (id, title, content, excerpt, tags, categories) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)',
args: [reverted.id, reverted.title, reverted.content, reverted.excerpt || '', reverted.tags.join(' '), reverted.categories.join(' ')],
});
}
await this.updateFTSIndex(reverted);
this.emit('postUpdated', reverted);
return reverted;
@@ -949,18 +992,29 @@ export class PostEngine extends EventEmitter {
.where(eq(posts.id, id));
// Update FTS index
if (client) {
await client.execute({ sql: 'DELETE FROM posts_fts WHERE id = ?', args: [id] });
await client.execute({
sql: 'INSERT INTO posts_fts (id, title, content, excerpt, tags, categories) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)',
args: [updated.id, updated.title, updated.content, updated.excerpt || '', updated.tags.join(' '), updated.categories.join(' ')],
});
}
await this.updateFTSIndex(updated);
this.emit('postUpdated', updated);
return updated;
}
/**
* Rebuild the FTS index for all posts in the current project.
* Call this after changing the search language or after migration.
*/
async rebuildFTSIndex(): Promise<void> {
const client = getDatabase().getLocalClient();
if (!client) return;
const allPosts = await this.getAllPostsUnpaginated();
for (const post of allPosts) {
await this.updateFTSIndex(post);
}
console.log(`Rebuilt FTS index for ${allPosts.length} posts`);
}
async rebuildDatabaseFromFiles(): Promise<void> {
const postsBaseDir = this.getPostsBaseDir();
const task: Task<void> = {
@@ -980,10 +1034,8 @@ export class PostEngine extends EventEmitter {
if (existingPosts.length > 0) {
const postIds = existingPosts.map(p => p.id);
// Delete FTS entries first
if (client) {
for (const post of existingPosts) {
await client.execute({ sql: 'DELETE FROM posts_fts WHERE id = ?', args: [post.id] });
}
for (const post of existingPosts) {
await this.deleteFTSIndex(post.id);
}
// Delete post links where source or target is in the posts being deleted
await db.delete(postLinks).where(inArray(postLinks.sourcePostId, postIds));
@@ -1069,13 +1121,7 @@ export class PostEngine extends EventEmitter {
insertedSlugs.set(slugKey, filePath);
// Update FTS index (use file content for search)
if (client) {
await client.execute({ sql: 'DELETE FROM posts_fts WHERE id = ?', args: [postData.id] });
await client.execute({
sql: 'INSERT INTO posts_fts (id, title, content, excerpt, tags, categories) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)',
args: [postData.id, postData.title, postData.content, postData.excerpt || '', postData.tags.join(' '), postData.categories.join(' ')],
});
}
await this.updateFTSIndex(postData);
} catch (error: any) {
// Handle constraint violations and other errors gracefully
if (error?.code === 'SQLITE_CONSTRAINT_UNIQUE') {

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@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ export { MediaEngine, getMediaEngine, type MediaData } from './MediaEngine';
export { SyncEngine, getSyncEngine, type SyncConfig, type SyncResult, type SyncDirection, type SyncStatus } from './SyncEngine';
export { ProjectEngine, getProjectEngine, type ProjectData } from './ProjectEngine';
export { MetaEngine, getMetaEngine } from './MetaEngine';
export {
stemText,
stemWord,
stemQuery,
prepareForFTS,
getSupportedLanguages,
type SupportedLanguage,
} from './stemmer';
export {
DropboxSyncEngine,
getDropboxSyncEngine,

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src/main/engine/stemmer.ts Normal file
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@@ -0,0 +1,183 @@
/**
* Multilingual text stemming utility using Snowball stemmers.
* Used to normalize text before indexing in FTS5 and before searching.
*
* Supports 24 languages including: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian,
* Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Arabic, and more.
*/
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
const snowballFactory = require('snowball-stemmers');
export type SupportedLanguage =
| 'arabic'
| 'armenian'
| 'basque'
| 'catalan'
| 'czech'
| 'danish'
| 'dutch'
| 'english'
| 'finnish'
| 'french'
| 'german'
| 'hungarian'
| 'italian'
| 'irish'
| 'norwegian'
| 'porter'
| 'portuguese'
| 'romanian'
| 'russian'
| 'spanish'
| 'slovene'
| 'swedish'
| 'tamil'
| 'turkish';
interface Stemmer {
stem(word: string): string;
}
// Cache stemmers to avoid recreating them
const stemmerCache = new Map<SupportedLanguage, Stemmer>();
/**
* Get a stemmer instance for a given language.
* Stemmers are cached for reuse.
*/
function getStemmer(language: SupportedLanguage): Stemmer {
let stemmer = stemmerCache.get(language);
if (!stemmer) {
stemmer = snowballFactory.newStemmer(language) as Stemmer;
stemmerCache.set(language, stemmer);
}
return stemmer;
}
/**
* Get all supported language codes.
*/
export function getSupportedLanguages(): SupportedLanguage[] {
return snowballFactory.algorithms() as SupportedLanguage[];
}
/**
* Tokenize text into words.
* Uses Unicode-aware word splitting to handle non-ASCII languages.
*/
function tokenize(text: string): string[] {
// Match Unicode word characters (letters, marks, numbers)
// This handles languages like German (häuser), Russian (привет), Arabic, etc.
const wordPattern = /[\p{L}\p{M}\p{N}]+/gu;
const matches = text.match(wordPattern);
return matches || [];
}
/**
* Stem a single word using the specified language stemmer.
*/
export function stemWord(word: string, language: SupportedLanguage = 'english'): string {
const stemmer = getStemmer(language);
return stemmer.stem(word.toLowerCase());
}
/**
* Stem all words in a text and return the stemmed text.
* Words are joined with spaces.
*
* @param text - The text to stem
* @param language - The language to use for stemming (default: 'english')
* @returns Text with all words replaced by their stems
*
* @example
* stemText('Running runners run', 'english') // 'run runner run'
* stemText('Häuser Haus', 'german') // 'haus haus'
*/
export function stemText(text: string, language: SupportedLanguage = 'english'): string {
if (!text) return '';
const words = tokenize(text);
const stemmer = getStemmer(language);
const stemmedWords = words.map(word => stemmer.stem(word.toLowerCase()));
return stemmedWords.join(' ');
}
/**
* Prepare a search query by stemming all words.
* This ensures searches match stemmed content in the FTS index.
*
* FTS5 query syntax is preserved:
* - Quoted phrases are stemmed but kept quoted
* - Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) are preserved
* - Prefix searches (word*) have the word part stemmed
*
* @param query - The search query from the user
* @param language - The language for stemming
* @returns Query with words stemmed for FTS5
*
* @example
* stemQuery('running dogs', 'english') // 'run dog'
* stemQuery('"running fast"', 'english') // '"run fast"'
*/
export function stemQuery(query: string, language: SupportedLanguage = 'english'): string {
if (!query) return '';
const stemmer = getStemmer(language);
// Handle quoted phrases - stem words inside quotes but keep quotes
const result = query.replace(
/"([^"]+)"|(\S+)/g,
(match, quoted, unquoted) => {
if (quoted) {
// Stem words in quoted phrase
const words = tokenize(quoted);
const stemmed = words.map(w => stemmer.stem(w.toLowerCase())).join(' ');
return `"${stemmed}"`;
}
// Check for FTS5 operators
const upper = unquoted.toUpperCase();
if (upper === 'AND' || upper === 'OR' || upper === 'NOT') {
return upper;
}
// Handle prefix searches (word*)
if (unquoted.endsWith('*')) {
const wordPart = unquoted.slice(0, -1);
const words = tokenize(wordPart);
if (words.length > 0) {
return stemmer.stem(words[0].toLowerCase()) + '*';
}
return match;
}
// Regular word - stem it
const words = tokenize(unquoted);
if (words.length > 0) {
return stemmer.stem(words[0].toLowerCase());
}
return '';
}
);
// Clean up multiple spaces
return result.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
}
/**
* Prepare content for FTS indexing.
* Stems all text and produces a string suitable for FTS5 insertion.
*
* Also stores the original text after the stemmed text (separated by a special marker)
* so that snippet() can show the original words. However, we'll use a simpler approach:
* just return stemmed text for matching.
*
* @param text - The original content
* @param language - The language for stemming
* @returns Stemmed text for FTS5 indexing
*/
export function prepareForFTS(text: string, language: SupportedLanguage = 'english'): string {
return stemText(text, language);
}

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@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ export interface SearchResult {
title: string;
slug: string;
excerpt?: string;
score: number;
}
export interface MediaData {