[Snowball-discuss] Snowball and Perl

Juan Francisco Fernandez Carrasco juanf@lsi.upc.es
Wed Oct 1 14:33:01 2003 

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Olly Betts wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:19:40PM +0200, Juan Francisco Fernandez Carrasco wrote:
> > I am trying to add snowball stemmers for Spanish, Italian and English
> > (Catalan and Basque
> > would be welcome but I see they are not available) to a Perl
> > application.
>
> If you'd like to help out with Catalan and Basque stemmers, see:
>
> http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/howtohelp.html

I would like to, but I lack of the linguistic knowledge to do so.
I could try it for Catalan if I would know which are the important
points of a stemmer but I have no idea about it. And about Basque,
well, it lies out of my skills.

>
>
> > Is there any way to compile Snowball code to Perl instead of C?
>
> I have a partially written Snowball backend which would generate Perl
> code instead of C, but I've not had enough time to work on it much.
> It's probably not too far from working though if someone wants to
> try and get it working.
>
> > Could you give me any advice or workaround to achieve that aim?
>
> The other approaches are to use XS (or similar) wrappers to call the C
> version from Perl, or to use a separate Perl implementation.  Oleg
> provided a link to Perl wrappers (and a couple of reasons for preferring
> them).
>

Thanks all for your help. I've found the wrappers and I am trying to put them up and
running.

Best,

  Juan Fra


>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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Olly Betts wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:19:40PM +0200, Juan Francisco
Fernandez Carrasco wrote:
<br>> I am trying to add snowball stemmers for Spanish, Italian and English
<br>> (Catalan and Basque
<br>> would be welcome but I see they are not available) to a Perl
<br>> application.
<p>If you'd like to help out with Catalan and Basque stemmers, see:
<p><a href="http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/howtohelp.html">http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/howtohelp.html</a></blockquote>

<p><br>I would like to, but I lack of the linguistic knowledge to do so.
<br>I could try it for Catalan if I would know which are the important
<br>points of a stemmer but I have no idea about it. And about Basque,
<br>well, it lies out of my skills.
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><a href="http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/howtohelp.html"></a>&nbsp;
<p>> Is there any way to compile Snowball code to Perl instead of C?
<p>I have a partially written Snowball backend which would generate Perl
<br>code instead of C, but I've not had enough time to work on it much.
<br>It's probably not too far from working though if someone wants to
<br>try and get it working.
<p>> Could you give me any advice or workaround to achieve that aim?
<p>The other approaches are to use XS (or similar) wrappers to call the
C
<br>version from Perl, or to use a separate Perl implementation.&nbsp;
Oleg
<br>provided a link to Perl wrappers (and a couple of reasons for preferring
<br>them).
<br>&nbsp;</blockquote>
Thanks all for your help. I've found the wrappers and I am trying to put
them up and
<br>running.
<p>Best,
<p>&nbsp; Juan Fra
<br>&nbsp;
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>&nbsp;
<br>Cheers,
<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Olly
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