[Snowball-discuss] Snowball French stemming

[Martin Porter]

Fred,

Of course, the stemmers are not perfect, so errors of this type will happen.
Even so, there does seem to be room for improvement. -ais is a verb ending,
which is why it taken off franc,ais (the stemmer does not know this is not a
verb form). But it is also a common adjectival form: japonais, anglais,
franc,ais etc and might be removed accordingly (mauvais is an exception here).
If I made this change would you be interested?

Martin