[Snowball-discuss] some words that stem to later that should not

[Steve Tolkin]

I think that all these except the last line, should stem to "lateral" not
"later".  
I do not know if there is a reasonable way to make this change.  
Later is such a common word that a search for one of the other term would
like have a very bad result. 

 

The Porter stemmer Snowball demo at http://snowball.tartarus.org/demo.php
produces this output:

 

lateral -> later

laterality -> later

lateralization -> later

laterally -> later

later -> later

 
P.S. Both Google and Bing handle lateralization and lateral correctly, i.e.,
by not stemming.
 
Hopefully helpfully yours,
Steve Tolkin
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