Class: Treat::Workers::Inflectors::Stemmers::PorterC

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/treat/workers/inflectors/stemmers/porter_c.rb

Overview

Stemming using a wrapper for a C implementation of the Porter stemming algorithm, a rule-based suffix-stripping stemmer which is very widely used and is considered the de-facto standard algorithm used for English stemming.

Original paper: Porter, 1980. An algorithm for suffix stripping. Program, vol. 14, no. 3, p. 130-137.

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.stem(word, options = {}) ⇒ Object

Stem the word using a full-blown Porter stemmer in C.

Options: none.



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# File 'lib/treat/workers/inflectors/stemmers/porter_c.rb', line 20

def self.stem(word, options = {})
  ::LinguaStemmer.stemmer(word.to_s)
end