Re: proposal for word stemming package

Demian Turner wrote: >Hi all > >Before proposing with PEPr I'd like to get a general idea if devs think a word >stemming package would be useful in PEAR. An adaption of the Porter Stemming >Algorithm[1] has been done in PHP which I'd like to PEARify and refactor >slightly to allow multiple language drivers. Currently I've obtained permission >from Anu Joseph who adapted the algorithm to PHP and from Martin Porter[2], the >original author. > >I propose the package name Text_Stemmer. Fine with me, although the proposed PHP file looks like it supports only English. FYI, there is also a php extension (unfortunately, the author didn't propose it to PECL yet) called stem-php http://bugs.tutorbuddy.com/ It is using Snowball http://www.snowball.tartarus.org/ AFAIK. Bertrand