Snowball
Snowball
https://snowballstem.org/
Snowball stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval
Snowball 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".
Snowball provides algorithms for several (mainly European) languages. It also provides access to the classic Porter stemming algorithm for English: although this has been superseded by an improved algorithm, the original algorithm may be of interest to information retrieval researchers wishing to reproduce results of earlier experiments.
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Leaders and contributors
| Contact(s) | Role |
|---|---|
| Martin Porter | contact |
Resources and communication
| Audience | Resource type | URI |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby (Ref) | https://rubygems.org/gems/snowball | |
| Download | https://github.com/snowballstem/snowball/releases | |
| VCS Repository Webview | https://github.com/snowballstem/snowball | |
| Debian (Ref) | https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/snowball |
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