[Snowball-discuss] German Stemmer

[Gary Davidson]

I am sorry I was not clear, "Papieres" was a typo.

Thanks, I believe I found the problem elsewhere.

Gary Davidson





>From: martin.porter@grapeshot.co.uk (Martin Porter)
>To: "Gary Davidson" <sql_1@hotmail.com>, 
>snowball-discuss@lists.tartarus.org
>Subject: Re: [Snowball-discuss] German Stemmer
>Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:12:56 GMT
>
>
> >The German words "Papiere" and "Papieres" do not stem to the same
> >root "papiere" as I thought they would. Is there some reason for this? As
> >I am a programmer and not a linguist I am at a loss.
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Gary Davidson
>
>
>Gary,
>
>No, they don't stem to papiere, but they do stem to the same form (papi),
>which means that they are conflated by the stemming process.
>
>Stemming is not exact in the way you seem to expect - see the introductory
>document on the snowball site -
>
>http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/introduction.html
>
>Martin
>
>
>

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