edu.ucla.sspace.text

Class PorterStemmer

java.lang.Object

edu.ucla.sspace.text.PorterStemmer

All Implemented Interfaces:

Stemmer

public class PorterStemmer
extends Object
implements Stemmer

This is an implementation of the Porter stemmer in Java. The original paper is in Porter, 1980, An algorithm for suffix stripping, Program, Vol. 14, no. 3, pp 130-137,

This code has been ported and heavily modified based on the original implementation found here

Author:

Keith Stevens

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
PorterStemmer() Creates a new PorterStemmer

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

PorterStemmer

public PorterStemmer()

Creates a new PorterStemmer

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