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



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?

Gruesse,
-- 
Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
www: http://www.djpig.de/



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