uk.ac.gla.terrier.terms
Class WeakPorterStemmer

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.gla.terrier.terms.PorterStemmer
      uk.ac.gla.terrier.terms.WeakPorterStemmer

All Implemented Interfaces:

TermPipeline

public class WeakPorterStemmer
extends PorterStemmer

An implementation of the Porter stemming algorithm that uses only the first step of the algorithm.

Version:

$Revision: 1.10 $

Author:

Craig Macdonald & Gianni Amati & Vassilis Plachouras

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class uk.ac.gla.terrier.terms.PorterStemmer

b

Constructor Summary

WeakPorterStemmer(TermPipeline next)

Method Summary

java.lang.String

stem(java.lang.String s) Returns the stem of a given term, after applying the first step of Porter's stemming algorithm.

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.gla.terrier.terms.PorterStemmer

main, processTerm

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

WeakPorterStemmer

public WeakPorterStemmer(TermPipeline next)

Method Detail

stem

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

Returns the stem of a given term, after applying the first step of Porter's stemming algorithm.

Overrides:

stem in class PorterStemmer

Parameters:

s - String the term to be stemmed.

Returns:

String the stem of a given term.