Hi,

Below you'll find the weekly update from the Search Platform team for the week starting 2018-03-19.

As always, feedback and questions welcome.

== Discussions ==

=== Search === * Trey has finished his initial review of a Slovak stemmer, and so far it looks like like the less aggressive version of the stemmer performs well. [0] Next steps may include more testing and packaging a version of the stemmer into an Elasticsearch plugin.

== Did you know? == * The English word ''nice'' has undergone many big swings in meaning, including “foolish”, “painstaking”, “strict”, “subtle”, and “risky”. See the obsolete and dated senses in English Wiktionary [1] or the etymological information at Etymonline [2].

[0] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:TJones_(WMF)/Notes/Slovak_Stemmer_Analys... [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nice#English [2] https://www.etymonline.com/word/nice

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