[Snowball-discuss] Stemming different spellings

Jeet Biswas j.biswas at wti-frankfurt.com
Mon Aug 9 14:00:32 BST 2021


Thank Martin for your suggestion. I will ask the question in Annif forum too.

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From: Martin Porter <martin.f.porter at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, August 9, 2021 2:54 PM
To: Jeet Biswas <j.biswas at wti-frankfurt.com>
Cc: snowball-discuss at lists.tartarus.org <snowball-discuss at lists.tartarus.org>
Subject: Re: [Snowball-discuss] Stemming different spellings

Jeet,

I think your question should really be directed to the annif.org
people, but I can give quick answers to 1 and 2,

For 1, see https://lists.tartarus.org/pipermail/snowball-discuss/2013-July/001478.html
This question has often come up, and 2013 was not the first time, but
I think the note summarises (or summarizes) the issue fairly well.

For 2, snowball is for word stemming, not word respelling.
color/colour is like gaol/jail, a word that can be spelled in two
ways. Such normalisation would have to be done outside snowball
therefore. Perhaps annif does this.

Martin
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