[Snowball-discuss] Multiple errors in generated Java sources for Latin algorithm

[Martin Porter]

Thank you so much for the explanantion there Olly.

Note:

The Latin stemmer was included in the snowball release rather as a
theoretical exercise. I just wanted to show the ease of putting the
Schinke rules into a snowball form. The unusual feature of producing
two stems does seem rather unsatisfactory, if one is concerned with
practical IR work.

A question did one come up about the stemmer itself (I can't remember
now what it was) and I tried contacting the authors, but Schinke I
could not trace, and Prof Willett, who had acted as supervisor of
Schinke's work, was not able to answer it, so we are reliant on the
original paper for any further explanation of their approach. Again I
was once asked for the paper, which then was not traceable anywhere on
the web. I photocopied my offprint and sent it through the post. If
necessary I could scan it and upload it somewhere if anyone was
desperate for a copy.

M