Re: [Snowball-discuss] what about Perl PorterStemmer

From: Olly Betts (olly@survex.com)
Date: Wed Jun 18 2003 - 11:41:02 BST


On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:14:30PM +0200, cyrille wrote:
> Martin Porter a écrit:
> >No, the perl version is just for the the so-called Porter stemmer (English)
>
> Do you think it is a hard work to rewrite it
> with rules from http://www.snowball.tartarus.org/french/stemmer.html ??
> Perhaps I will loose my time or is it possible ??

I would say the most useful approach would be to write a Perl backend
for the Snowball compiler. Then *any* Snowball stemmer (existing or yet
to be written) would be automatically available in Perl as well.

Cheers,
    Olly



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