PyStemmer
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PyStemmer
http://snowball.tartarus.org/
PyStemmer provides access to efficient algorithms for calculating a "stemmed" form of a word. This is a form with most of the common morphological endings removed; hopefully representing a common linguistic base form. This is most useful in building search engines and information retrieval software; for example, a search with stemming enabled should be able to find a document containing "cycling" given the query "cycles". PyStemmer provides algorithms for several (mainly european) languages, by wrapping the libstemmer library from the Snowball project in a Python module. It also provides access to the classic Porter stemming algorithm for english: although this has been superceded by an improved algorithm, the original algorithm may be of interest to information retrieval researchers wishing to reproduce results of earlier experiments.
Licensing
| License | Verified by | Verified on | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| BSD 3Clause | Kelly Hopkins | 2455105.51 October 2009 | |
| Expat | Kelly Hopkins | 2455105.51 October 2009 |
Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
 Richard Boulton | Maintainer |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Help | Homepage | http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyStemmer/1.0.1 |
| Developer | Homepage | http://snowball.tartarus.org/download.php |
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This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 1 October 2009.
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