[Snowball-discuss] Norwegian stemmer

[Martin Porter]

Jan,

I apologise for taking so long to get back to the stemming work, but I have
been busy with other things. You suggested (13 Jan) removing k from
define_s_ending in the Norwegian stemmer. In the sample vocabulary about one
word per thousand is affected by this. Here is the list:

-ks word                      current action                Bruusgaard
adjustment
--------                      --------------
---------------------

boks                          bok                           + boks
brokks                        brokk                         0 brokks
danmarks                      danmark                       0 danmarks
fisks                         fisk                          ? fisks
foretaks                      foretak                       0 foretaks
heks                          hek                           + heks
innenriks                     innenrik                      ? innenriks
inneriks                      innerik                       ? inneriks
instruks                      instruk                       + instruks
juks                          juk                           + juks
laks                          lak                           + laks
markedsinndeks                markedsinndek                 ? markedsinndeks
paradoks                      paradok                       + paradoks
seks                          sek                           ? seks
straks                        strak                         ? straks
styreinstruks                 styreinstruk                  ? styreinstruks
utenriks                      utenrik                       + utenriks
verks                         verk                          ? verks
voks                          vok                           + voks

I think I will add your suggestion, since the forms marked + (I believe) are
improved by the rule, the forms marked 0 made worse. The forms marked ? I
cannot interpret.

I wonder if you could comment on this list as a native speaker of Norwegian?

Martin