lempinen.neatseeker.stemmer
Class PorterStemmer

java.lang.Object
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  +--lempinen.neatseeker.stemmer.PorterStemmer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Stemmer

public class PorterStemmer

extends java.lang.Object

implements Stemmer

Wrapper class for Dr. Martin Porter's stemmer for English.

This class is merely a wrapper that uses the charvec class by Dr. Martin Porter. Thanks to Dr. Porter for his kind permission to include his code in NeatSeeker.

For more information, see

http://www.muscat.com/~martin/stem.html

Version:

$Id: PorterStemmer.java,v 1.3 2000/09/23 12:27:08 lempinen Exp $

Author:

Sami Lempinen

Field Summary

private charvec

c Dr.

Constructor Summary

PorterStemmer()
Creates a new PorterStemmer object.

Method Summary

static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Test program.
java.lang.String	stem(java.lang.String word) Returns the stem of word.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

, clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, registerNatives, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

c

private charvec c

Dr. Porter's charvec class.

Constructor Detail

PorterStemmer

public PorterStemmer()

Creates a new PorterStemmer object.

Method Detail

stem

public java.lang.String stem(java.lang.String word)

Returns the stem of word.

Specified by:

stem in interface Stemmer

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Test program.