[Snowball-discuss] A stemmer for latvian

[Martin Porter]

Can someone else help with or comment on this? The libstemmer driver
was put together by Richard Boulton, and I myself have never actually
used it, so I'm not best placed to assist.

Vitālijs, it does sound like a problem in modifying the make script,
or something similar, and it might be easier to get help locally in
the Department in Latvia, -- Martin



On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Vitālijs Mikeļevičs
<vitalijs.mikelevics at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently studying Computer Science in University of Latvia and as a
> part of my bachelor's thesis I'm recreating Karlis Kreslin's stemmer in
> Snowball for later use in Sphinx SE and (possibly) adding it to Snowball
> project.
>
> Alas, I'm having problems running it:
> 1. I've downloaded "Snowball, algorithms, and libstemmer library." from
> http://snowball.tartarus.org/download.php
> 2. I've written stem_UTF_8.sbl and put it into algorithms/latvian
> 3. I've added Latvian to list of languages in GNUmakefile and also add it to
> "other_languages", because it requires UTF-8
> 4. I've added Latvian to libstemmer/modules.txt and modules_utf8.txt as
> latvian --> UTF_8 --> latvian,lv
> 5. I run "make", everything compiles, headers are created, modules are
> updated, libstemmer/mkinc.mak is updated, yet... when I run "stemwords -l
> latvian" it tells me that "language 'latvian' is not available for
> stemming". I've tried what seems to be everything, yet it still somehow
> doesn't work.
>
> Have I missed a step somewhere or did I do something wrong? Any possible
> advice appreciated.
>
> Best regards
> Vitālijs Mikeļevičs // Vitaly Mikelevich