Hi Martin,
Martin Porter wrote:
> I may have to let you pursue your study of the Dutch stemmer
> for sometime before getting involved myself, as I have a
> number of things on the go. Would that be okay by you?
That is fine with me.
> What I could do finally is offer a rerelease of the stemmer, or
> perhaps support two stemmers, simple and advanced.
I like this idea: the advanced will be slower (and more complex)
than the simple, so users can choose.
> I do have the Kraaij-Pohlmann stemmer in Snowball (exact
> except for a handful of words in a large vocabulary). They
> created a complex piece of work, not always easy to
> understand, but it does tackle the points you have been
> raising in your emails, as well as I can recall. Would it be
> useful to you if I put up my version on the Snowball website?
I'm very interested in the Kraaij-Pohlmann stemmer, I think it would be
useful to me.
> If the Dutch stemmer is redone, I'll need to find a new
> vocabulary (mine doesn't have apostophe in words, so stemming
> 'tje etc can't be demonstrated).
I will try to help you find/create such a vocabulary.
Edwin
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