From: Hassan Schroeder <hassan.schroeder@...>
Date: 2012-12-19T01:19:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [ruby-talk] Stemmer gem

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:04 AM, John Sampson
<sampson.john7@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am a newbie to Ruby so this may be elementary, but I have installed
> the gem "stemmer" successfully. But my guesses how to use it have all
> been wrong so far. Can anyone advise me?

Never heard of it, but it appears pretty straightforward:

1.9.3 (main):0 > require 'stemmer'
=> true
1.9.3 (main):0 > "foobical".respond_to? "stem"
=> true
1.9.3 (main):0 > "foobical".stem
=> "foobic"
1.9.3 (main):0 > "canonical".stem
=> "canon"
1.9.3 (main):0 > "logical".stem
=> "logic"
1.9.3 (main):0 > "recreational".stem
=> "recreat"
1.9.3 (main):0 > "fictitious".stem
=> "fictiti"

How well it works for your purposes, I'll leave for you to decide :-)

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