Hi there,
I just wanted to test the stemmer.
Am I right to think that there is not a "public String stem(String
word){" method?
Is it just a snowball -java generation mistake?
Best Regards
Ayhan Peker
Evren Kapusuz wrote:
> Hello,
> In my previous mail I sent the Snowball program as an attachment, so the
> main body of my mail didn't appear in the list. Sorry if I misused the
> list.
> Below is the main body of my mail.
>
> I am working on a project for indexing and searching documents written
> in Turkish.
> I couldn't find a stemmer for Turkish language, so I decided to
> develop one.
> Because of the agglutinative nature of the language, developing a
> stemmer for
> Turkish isn't an easy task. I found Snowball very
> useful for developing stemmers for
> languages having complex morphological structure. I was able to learn
> the features
> of the language in a very short time and develop a stemmer for Turkish
> language.
> I'd like to contribute it to Snowball.
>
>
> ps: Thanks for the paper of Gulsen Eryigit and Esref Adali. The
> stemming algorithm is based on the paper
> "An Affix Stripping Morphological Analyzer for Turkish" (Proceedings
> of the IAESTED International Conference
> ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS, February 16-18,2004,
> Innsbruck, Austria.
>
> Best regards,
> Evren Kapusuz Cilden
>
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