[Snowball-discuss] How to make snowball stemmers available in another language

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:36:42PM +0200, Amirouche Boubekki wrote:
> Le lun. 6 mai 2019 à 17:59, Amirouche Boubekki <amirouche.boubekki at gmail.com>
> a écrit :
> > I would like to use snowball stemmers in Guile. I am wondering what I
> > should do.
> > The most straightforward way seems to be to create bindings against
> > the shared library.
> >
> > It seems there is another method that compiles the algorithm down to
> > Javascript / Python etc... It is slower but it is also easier to
> > use.
> >
> > What are my options to make snowball available in Guile Scheme?

I've now written up some general advice for this and similar questions:

https://github.com/snowballstem/snowball/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.rst#is-a-new-generator-the-right-solution  

> In the end I created some bindings of the C library.
> 
> For anyone interested the code is at
> https://git.sr.ht/~amz3/guile-snowball-stemmer

Thanks - I've added a link to the website.

Cheers,
    Olly