Snowball Stemmer

A Snowball Stemmer is a Word Stemming System based on the Porter Stemming Algorithm.

• Example(s):
  • http://snowball.tartarus.org/demo.php
    • “We performed a principal components analysis.” ⇒ "we perform a princip compon analysi”.
• See: English Language, WVTool.

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References

• http://www.tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer

2009

• http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/stemmersoverview.html
  • We present stemming algorithms, and Snowball stemmers, for English, for Russian, for the Romance languages French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, for German and Dutch, for Swedish, Norwegian (bokmål dialect) and Danish, and for Finnish.
• http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/english/voc.txt
  • 29,417 words used by the Snowball Stemmer.

1980

• (Porter, 1980) ⇒ Martin F. Porter. (1980). “An algorithm for suffix stripping.” In: Program, 14(3):130–137.

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