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ruby-stemmer exposes SnowBall API stemmer implementation to ruby.

This package includes libstemmer_c library – released under BSD licence and available for download at: http://snowball.tartarus.org/dist/libstemmer_c.tgz.

For details about libstemmer_c please check libstemmer_c/README file or http://snowball.tartarus.org.

author: Aurelian Oancea, oancea at gmail.com

licence: MIT, see MIT-LICENSE file for details

Install

Please use sudo or run as root if you get in to Permission Deny issues.

Stable version – with rubygems:

$ gem install ruby-stemmer

Development version – from source

$ ruby extconf.rb # => compile libstemmer_c and generate a Makefile $ make # => compile the library $ ./test.rb # => test it :) $ make install # => to install

Usage

Please refer to test.rb.

API

  module Lingua
    class Steemer

      # creates a new Steemer,
      # defaults: language => en, encoding => UTF_8
      # pass :language or :encoding to change them 
      def initialize
      end
    
      # stemms the word
      def stem(word)
      end
    
      # gets the length of the last stemmed word
      # same as: 
      # word = Lingua::Steemer.new.stem("installation") # ==> install (string)
      # word.length # ==> 6 (int)
      def length
      end
    end
  end

Todo

• Add (Array of Hashes) Lingua::Stemmer.list to list available languages/encodings
• Windows?