[Snowball-discuss] English stemmer

[Martin Porter]

Yes -est is not removed, there being too many words from which its removal
would be incorrect - behest, attest, request and so on. Removing -est from
longer words only is not really satisfactory, since the English comparitive
and superlative endings are only added to short adjectives anyway: "curioser
and curioser" is not, of course, correct English.

Martin

>I recognized a systematic weakness in your English stemmer. It does not 
>reduce superlatives. For example "greatest" and "brightest" just remain 
>unchanged.