RE: [PHP-DEV] New extension: stem

2002-02-12 Thread J Smith
It's a great little tool if you're into search engines and that sort of thing, as word stemming has been quite a useful tool in the field of information retrieval. (Actually, I've built a search engine at work, which used an earlier stemmer I wrote based on Porter's original article using reg

Re: [PHP-DEV] New extension: stem

2002-02-12 Thread J Smith
I know no German at all besides what I've been able to learn from Wolfenstein 3D. I just cut and pasted a random word from the snowball site into the script. Naturally, I took what was probably the only misspelled one in the list. J Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > J Smith wrote: >> echo "Germa

Re: [PHP-DEV] New extension: stem

2002-02-11 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
J Smith wrote: > echo "German: aufeinanderschlügen -> " . stem("aufeinanderschlügen", > STEM_GERMAN) . "\n"; The 'ü' should be 'a'. Hm, just curious :-) -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Did I help you? Consider a gift: http:/

RE: [PHP-DEV] New extension: stem

2002-02-11 Thread James Cox
M > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP-DEV] New extension: stem > > > > Greetings. > > A few months ago, I mentioned that I had written a PHP extension that > provided English language suffix stemming using a "Porter stemmer", an > algorithm devised by Dr.

[PHP-DEV] New extension: stem

2002-02-11 Thread J Smith
Greetings. A few months ago, I mentioned that I had written a PHP extension that provided English language suffix stemming using a "Porter stemmer", an algorithm devised by Dr. Martin Porter for stripping the suffix (or suffixes) off of an English word. After a mention in the PHP weekly sum