edu.ucla.sspace.text

Class EnglishStemmer

java.lang.Object

edu.ucla.sspace.text.EnglishStemmer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Stemmer

public class EnglishStemmer
extends Object
implements Stemmer

A wrapper for the english Snowball Stemmer. Details for this specific stemmer can be found at here.

Author:

Keith Stevens.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
EnglishStemmer()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	stem(String token) Converts the token to its root form, or if it is already in root form, returns the token.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EnglishStemmer

public EnglishStemmer()

Method Detail

stem

public String stem(String token)

Converts the token to its root form, or if it is already in root form, returns the token.

Specified by:

stem in interface Stemmer