uk.ac.gla.terrier.terms
Class SnowballStemmer

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.gla.terrier.terms.SnowballStemmer

All Implemented Interfaces:

TermPipeline

Direct Known Subclasses:

DanishSnowballStemmer, DutchSnowballStemmer, EnglishSnowballStemmer, FinnishSnowballStemmer, FrenchSnowballStemmer, GermanSnowballStemmer, HungarianSnowballStemmer, ItalianSnowballStemmer, NorwegianSnowballStemmer, PortugueseSnowballStemmer, RomanianSnowballStemmer, RussianSnowballStemmer, SpanishSnowballStemmer, SwedishSnowballStemmer, TurkishSnowballStemmer

public abstract class SnowballStemmer
extends java.lang.Object
implements TermPipeline

Version:

$Revision: 1.4 $

Author:

Craig Macdonald

Method Summary

void	processTerm(java.lang.String t) Stems the given term and passes onto the next object in the term pipeline.
java.lang.String	stem(java.lang.String term) Stems the given term and returns the stem

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

processTerm

public void processTerm(java.lang.String t)

Stems the given term and passes onto the next object in the term pipeline.

Specified by:

processTerm in interface TermPipeline

Parameters:

t - String the term to stem.

stem

public java.lang.String stem(java.lang.String term)

Stems the given term and returns the stem

Parameters:

term - the term to be stemmed.

Returns:

the stemmed form of term