[Snowball-discuss] English stemmer

[Martin Porter]

Vineet,

I can only really answer this question (like so many others) with the FAQ
note at the end of 

http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/index.html

At 14:06 30/06/2003 -0700, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just wanted to check why the English stemmer does not stem Canadian 
>and Canada to the same root  (I am guessing it broke something else, 
>just wanted to know what it was).  The same pattern arises for Italian, 
>Californian, Albanian etc.
>
>Vineet Gupta