From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2005-04-21T18:19:35+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Stemmer 1.0.1 - Porter Stemmer Gem

Matt Mower [mailto:matt.mower@gmail.com] wrote:

#With thanks to Ray Pereda (who ported the Perl code to Ruby) I 
#have released a Stemmer gem which contains the Porter word stemming
#algorithm.   Both Lucas Carlson and I were using this code in our
#Bayesian classifier projects, I have used it in another 
#project and I'm sure other people make use of it too.  It made 
#sense to Lucas and I to separate it out into a Gem to make it 
#easier for others to use.
#
#RubyForge Project:
#
#http://rubyforge.org/projects/stemmer/
#
#Instructions:
#
#http://stemmer.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl?HomePage

Cool.

irb(main):006:0> "testing".stem
=> "test"
irb(main):007:0> "unimaginable".stem
=> "unimagin"

do you know of any algorithm that "stems" the prefix?

i'd like:

irb(main):007:0> "unimaginable".stem
=> "imagin"


thanks and kind regards -botp

#
#Regards,
#
#Matt
#
#-- 
#Matt Mower :: http://matt.blogs.it/
#