How to indicate an word exception for stemming in Hunspell

I am using Hunspell to stem words for a SOLR instance. For the most part, it seems to be working well.

I'm using the OpenOffice dic/aff files.

However, there are some notable word exceptions, and I'd like to be able to remove these as candidates for stemming.

A great example is "skier", which stems to "sky" because of the following:

in the .dic file
sky/MDRSGZ

relevant rule in the .aff file
SFX R   y     ier        [^aeiou]y

Is there any way to indicate that skier and only skier should be left alone?

Solution

Yeah this is a very common thing, just remove the "R"

sky/MDSGZ

But you may then want to add back in on another line "skier" and any other versions of it.

skier/MS

I have had to make numerous changes to this file, and now really wish there was a better option. For example

Butter -> Butt
Corner -> Corn
Easter -> East

And then another one that is really confusing,

Wind == Wound

On my site before we fixed it if you searched for wind like in "wind power" you ended up with a bunch of bruises and bloody wounds. Because "wound" like in "I wound the clock" stemmed to wind.

We also decided to remove all RE prefixes. because things like

remarkable -> mark
remove -> move
reset -> set
restore -> store

So if you know of a better dictionary that is better for this please let me know. (I think the main problem is this dictionary is more intended for spell check then for stemming)

I would be willing to start and/or contribute to a git project for a real stemming dictionary to replace this spelling dictionary for everyone out there using this.