From: Tim Fletcher <twoggle@...>
Date: 2006-10-15T01:30:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Text

Version 1.1.0 now includes the Porter Stemmer. Thanks for the
suggestion Alex!


Alex Young wrote:
> Tim Fletcher wrote:
> > Actually released a while ago, but hey.
> >
> >     http://rubyforge.org/projects/text/
> >
> >     gem install text
> >
> > Soundex, Metaphone, Double Metaphone, Levenshtein, and Figlet
> > algorithms all under the same roof. Any suggestions for anything to add?
>
> Porter stemming is the only standout that I can think of which might be
> useful in addition...  Google says there's one here:
>
> http://www.tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer/ruby.txt
>
> It's public domain code, according to
> http://www.tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer/.
> 
> -- 
> Alex