Re: [Matxin] QUESTION

[Jimmy O'R. <jo...@gm...>]

On Monday, June 14, 2010, Francis Tyers <ft...@pr...> wrote:
> El dl 14 de 06 de 2010 a les 16:45 +0200, en/na mikel otxandorena va
> escriure:
>> Hi, I am a student who is doing a small project. I have to do
>> something similar to stemming of porter for the basque language and
>> maybe you can help me telling me if you have some open code in your
>> project!!
>
> Kaixo Mikel,
>
> I'm not entirely sure how the porter stemmer works, but suspect that it
> is probably just removing common suffixes from English words (e.g. -ing,
> -ised, -ed etc.)
>

Almost, but close enough.

Mikel, are you just writing a stemmer, or are you writing it in
Porter's Snowball language specifically? If so, the Snowball list
would perhaps be the best place to direct your questions.


> There are morphological analysers for Basque that will do the same
> trick. The IXA group has one 'Xuxen' I think it is called, but it isn't
> open source. There is a partially conversion of this in the Apertium
> project:
>
> https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium-eu-es/apertium-eu-es.eu.dix
>
> But your mileage might vary.
>

The <l> parts of the paradigms will provide you with most of what you
will need to trim for a Porter-type stemmer, but not *when*.

> The other thing you could look at is the hunspell Basque spellchecker
> (see e.g. hunspell-eu-es in Debian/Ubuntu), which has a rather long
> affix file eu-ES.aff.

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