Re: [Snowball-discuss] English stemmer

From: Martin Porter (martin.porter@grapeshot.co.uk)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 16:00:01 BST

Vineet,

I can only really answer this question (like so many others) with the FAQ
note at the end of

http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/index.html

At 14:06 30/06/2003 -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just wanted to check why the English stemmer does not stem Canadian
>and Canada to the same root (I am guessing it broke something else,
>just wanted to know what it was). The same pattern arises for Italian,
>Californian, Albanian etc.
>
>Vineet Gupta

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