smile.nlp.stemmer

Interface Stemmer

All Known Implementing Classes:

LancasterStemmer, PorterStemmer

public interface Stemmer

A Stemmer transforms a word into its root form. The stemming is a process for removing the commoner morphological and inflexional endings from words (in English). Its main use is as part of a term normalisation process.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	stem(java.lang.String word) Transforms a word into its root form.

Method Detail

stem

java.lang.String stem(java.lang.String word)

Transforms a word into its root form.