org.knowceans.corpus.util
Class EnStemmer

java.lang.Object
  org.knowceans.corpus.util.EnStemmer

public class EnStemmer
extends java.lang.Object

English stemmer based on a Snowball-based Porter algorithm.

Author:

heinrich

Field Summary

(package private) EnglishStemmer

stemmer

Constructor Summary

EnStemmer()
create a new English stemmer

Method Summary

static void	main(java.lang.String[] args)
java.lang.String	stem(java.lang.String word) stem a single word

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

stemmer

EnglishStemmer stemmer

Constructor Detail

EnStemmer

public EnStemmer()

create a new English stemmer

Method Detail

stem

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

stem a single word

Parameters:

word -

Returns:

the stemmed version of the word

main

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