org.knowceans.corpus.util
Class Stemmer

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

public class Stemmer
extends java.lang.Object

German stemmer based on a Snowball algorithm.

Author:

heinrich

Field Summary

(package private) GermanStemmer

stemmer

Constructor Summary

Stemmer()
create a new German 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

GermanStemmer stemmer

Constructor Detail

Stemmer

public Stemmer()

create a new German 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)