A twitter friend (@communicating) tipped me off to the UEA-Lite Stemmer by Marie-Claire Jenkins and Dan J. Smith. Stemmers are NLP tools that get rid of inflectional and derivational affixes from words. In English, that usually means getting rid of the plural -s, progressive -ing, and preterite -ed. Depending on the type of stemmer, that [...]
Archive for 16 July 2009
Porting the UEA-Lite Stemmer to Ruby
Posted: 16 July 2009 in UncategorizedTags: computational linguistics, finite state transducers, github, information retrieval, nlp, open source software, ruby, software, stemmers, stemming
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