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Snowball English

This package implements the English language Snowball stemmer.

Implementation

The English language stemmer comprises preprocessing, a number of steps, and postprocessing. Each of these is defined in a separate file in this package. All of the steps operate on a SnowballWord from the snowballword package and modify the word in place.

Caveats

There is a single difference between this implementation and the original. Here, all apostrophes on the left hand side of a word are stripped off before the word is stemmed.

Documentation

Index

• func IsStopWord(word string) bool
• func Stem(word string, stemStopwWords bool) string

Functions

func IsStopWord

func IsStopWord(word string) bool

Return `true` if the input `word` is an English stop word.

func Stem

func Stem(word string, stemStopwWords bool) string

Stem an English word. This is the only exported function in this package.