[Snowball-discuss] what about Perl PorterStemmer

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:14:30PM +0200, cyrille wrote:
> Martin Porter a écrit:
> >No, the perl version is just for the the so-called Porter stemmer (English)
> 
> Do you think it is a hard work to rewrite it
> with rules from http://www.snowball.tartarus.org/french/stemmer.html ??
> Perhaps I will loose my time or is it possible ??

I would say the most useful approach would be to write a Perl backend
for the Snowball compiler.  Then *any* Snowball stemmer (existing or yet
to be written) would be automatically available in Perl as well.

Cheers,
    Olly