Word stems

A stem of a word is the part of the word that the inflected variants of the word have in common. The IBM® Content Search Services search server identifies and searches for the stem for any word terms that are included in a full-text search expression. For example, if you search for testing, the search server automatically searches for test and tester also.

Word stem searches do not occur for search expressions that have Boolean operators such as AND, OR, or NOT. Also, word stem searching does not apply to the following types of search terms: