Bug#493910: ITP: liblingua-stem-snowball-perl -- Perl interface to Snowball stemmers

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 06:55:27AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > * Package name    : liblingua-stem-snowball-perl
> >   Version         : 0.941
> >   Upstream Author : Marvin Humphrey <marvin@rectangular.com>
> > * URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-Stem-Snowball/
> > * License         : Dual GPL/Artistic, portions BSD
> >   Programming Lang: Perl, C
> >   Description     : Perl interface to Snowball stemmers
> > 
> > Stemming reduces related words to a common root form. For instance,
> > "horse", "horses", and "horsing" all become "hors". Most commonly,
> > stemming is deployed as part of a search application, allowing searches
> > for a given term to match documents which contain other forms of that
> > term.
> 
> What is the relation of this module to things like
> liblingua-stem-snowball-da-perl, libsnowball-norwegian-perl, and
> libsnowball-swedish-perl?

These existing modules are pure-perl implementations of individual
language stemming algorithms, whereas Lingua::Stem::Snowball contains
bindings to the C implementation of snowball stemmers for around 12
different languages.

See also the rest of the long description which you snipped, and
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-Stem/lib/Lingua/Stem.pod#Comparision_with_Lingua::Stem::Snowball (Lingua::Stem uses Lingua::Stem::Snowball::{Da,No,Se}
modules, in addition to its own stemmers.

Cheers,
Dominic.

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