Re: [Snowball-discuss] Snowball French stemming

From: Martin Porter (martin.porter@grapeshot.co.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 12 2003 - 16:06:01 GMT


Fred,

Of course, the stemmers are not perfect, so errors of this type will happen.
Even so, there does seem to be room for improvement. -ais is a verb ending,
which is why it taken off franc,ais (the stemmer does not know this is not a
verb form). But it is also a common adjectival form: japonais, anglais,
franc,ais etc and might be removed accordingly (mauvais is an exception here).
If I made this change would you be interested?

Martin



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