[Snowball-discuss] Ukrainian stemmer?

[Carl Erickson]

I've been asked by a client to determine the feasibility of  
supporting Ukrainian in a project using the Ruby search engine  
library Ferret. Ferret uses Snowball. I think it's likely that I can  
convince our client to release the Ukrainian Snowball work under the  
BSD license.

It would be really helpful to know, even roughly, how much effort is  
required to create a basic Ukrainian stemmer. Is a native speaker  
paired with an experience programmer enough, or do I need a Ukrainian  
linguist? Am I looking at days or weeks or months of effort?

thanks,
Carl
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