[Snowball-discuss] stemming 'er' suffix

[Martin Porter]

Jason,

Yes, you see the point I think. Applied in the R1 zone it gives rise to too
many errors, water, mother, father, sister, daughter, winter, banter,
canter, ... and many names, peter, cooper, hooper, pinter, and of course,
"porter"!

Martin 

At 02:26 PM 2/9/2010 -0800, jason wrote:
>After taking a more close look at the algorithm, i see that the problem with
>the ER suffix is due to the fact that it is only applied for
>R2 zone, whereas in some cases it is appropriate to apply for R1.
>