[Snowball-discuss] Suggestion for German stemmer

[Blake Madden]

I wish to offer a suggestion for the German stemmer.

In step 1a, I propose deleting a "t" if in R1 and proceed by a valid "t" 
ending.  I suggest a valid "t" ending as any non-vowel other than "s".  This 
would stem words such as "habt", "tanzt", and "leibt" down to the roots 
"hab", "tanz", and "leib".  This would be useful because when the word 
"haben" appears as "haben", "habt", and "habe", it is stemmed down to "hab".

I am not a native speaker of German, so there may be something important 
that I am not taking into account.  However, I am hoping that my suggestion 
could actually be useful.

Thank you for your consideration,
Blake

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