[htdig-dev] Porter-type Stemming Algorithms

[Neal R. <ne...@ri...>]

Hello,
	Would anyone be interested in having the Porter-type Stemming
Algorithms integrated as a second stemming algorithm?

	The Porter algorithm is a well known (in the NLP
community) multi-language stemmer that implements an approximate 
'morphological' stemming for each language.  The original algorithm was
english-only, but the framework was adapted.

	Here is Martin Porter's algorithm page.
http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/

	Martin Porter is also running this sourceforge site for
his newer stemming work.
	http://snowball.sourceforge.net/

A complete set of Porter-type stemmers is available within the omseek
project here:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/omseek/om/languages/

Is everyone happy with the current stemming system?

Thanks.

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Neal Richter 
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