[Snowball-discuss] Slovene stemmer

[Boštjan Jerko]

Hello Martin,

No problem. I was just wondering what's going on.
Thanks for the answer,

Boštjan

Martin Porter wrote:
> Bostjan,
> 
> Yes, I have always kept in mind the possibility of putting your Slovene
> stemmer among the various snowball stemmers at snowball.tartarus.org.
> 
> Various things arose:
> 
> I recall that when I asked you for a sample vocab, you sent back a small
> text in Slovene (the beginning of a translation of Orwell's 1984, if I
> remember correctly), and what I wanted to do was to put together a larger
> wordlist, in alphabetical order, derived from a more substantial set of
> texts, and then try your stemmer out.
> 
> I also wanted to rework your program to use 'among' statements. As I said at
> the time, this would make it run really fast.
> 
> One thing that struck me about your stemmer is that (again, if I remember
> right) the rules were not based on any measure of syllable length. For the
> Snowball stemmers syllable length has proved quite useful -- although for
> the Russian one it was less important. I wanted to see how far that mattered.
> 
> I also wanted to look at the Willett Popovic paper again.
> 
> Unfortunately, I have not had too much time to devote to Snowball over the
> past six months, so none of this was done. But I would still like to tackle
> it. Could you perhaps give me a little more time? Just another month ...
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 
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