[Snowball-discuss] Turkish Stemmer (sorry if I misused the list)

[ayhan peker]

Hi there,
I just wanted to test the stemmer.
Am I right to think that there is not a "public String stem(String 
word){" method?
Is it just a snowball -java generation mistake?
Best Regards

Ayhan Peker

Evren Kapusuz wrote:
> Hello,
> In my previous mail I sent the Snowball program as an attachment, so the
> main body of my mail didn't appear in the list. Sorry if I misused the 
> list.
> Below is the main body of my mail.
>  
> I am working on a project for indexing and searching documents written 
> in Turkish.
> I couldn't find a stemmer for Turkish language, so I decided to 
> develop one.
> Because of the agglutinative nature of the language, developing a 
> stemmer for
> Turkish isn't an easy task. I found Snowball very 
> useful for developing stemmers for
> languages having complex morphological structure.  I was able to learn 
> the features
> of the language in a very short time and develop a stemmer for Turkish 
> language.
> I'd like to contribute it to Snowball.
>  
>  
> ps: Thanks for the paper of  Gulsen Eryigit and Esref Adali. The 
> stemming algorithm is based on the paper
> "An Affix Stripping Morphological Analyzer for Turkish" (Proceedings 
> of the IAESTED International Conference
> ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND APPLICATIONS, February 16-18,2004, 
> Innsbruck, Austria.
>  
> Best regards,
> Evren Kapusuz Cilden
>  
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