NOTE: this package is not compatible with Elm 0.19.1

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Stemmer

Stemmer is an english language stemmer, this is an Elm implementation of the PorterStemmer taken from http://tartarus.org/~martin.

Copyright (c) 2016 Robin Luiten

Inspired by Erlang implementation on http://tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/index.html.

Usage

stem : String -> String

Get the porter stem of a word.

Some examples and what running them produces

  Stemmer.stem "fullness" -- produces "full"
  Stemmer.stem "consign" -- produces "consign"
  Stemmer.stem "consigned" -- produces "consign"
  Stemmer.stem "consigning" -- produces "consign"
  Stemmer.stem "consignment" -- produces "consign"
  Stemmer.stem "knot" -- produces "knot"
  Stemmer.stem "knots" -- produces "knot"

Implementation Details

Step numbers follow general implementation in porter stemmer implementations.

Identifier names were adopted from elrang implementation.

drow stands for reverse of word
mets stands for reverse of stem

Modules

Stemmer