[Snowball-discuss] Re: French stemmer, Snowball project

[Martin Porter]

Fred,

Your comments have been very useful, and I've made changes to the French
stemmer page accordingly. What I will do soon is add your name, and the name
of other email helpers, to the 'credits' section of the Snowball site.

> ....  Maybe it is just personnal because I 
>am involved in information retrieval but: would it be a good idea to 
>explain the consequences of this particular rule in the description of 
>the algorithm?  ....

The difficulty of course is trying to keep the algorithm descriptions down
to a manageable size. All the rules in an algorithm might be given an
explanation along these lines. But I am aware that there is a gap here. 

Martin