[Snowball-discuss] Which variant in Arabic stemming algorithm

[Assem Chelli]

Hello Olly, Rebbeca

It is mainly Modern Standard Arabic but works for Classical Arabic.

> It seems we're currently completely lacking a page about this algorithm
> on the website, which would be good to address.  I see Assem already
> has an open issue about this:

If there are a lot of people looking for that, I can give it some time to
build it.


btw I worked on integrating the new version of snowball into Lucene/Solr,
It is used in my current company, but I didn't release it to open source as
the process is long for that repo.

Regards,
Assem





On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 5:54 AM Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 05:12:16PM +0000, Rebecca A. Anderson wrote:
> > Can someone help me to confirm the Arabic variant in the Arabic
> > stemming algorithm: specifically, is this Modern Standard Arabic or
> > another variant?
>
> I've Cc-ed Assem Chelli, one of the authors of the algorithm and the
> one who contributed it who hopefully can answer your question.
>
> It seems we're currently completely lacking a page about this algorithm
> on the website, which would be good to address.  I see Assem already
> has an open issue about this:
>
> https://github.com/assem-ch/arabicstemmer/issues/8
>
> Assem: If it helps, I'm happy to create a stub page for you to expand
> upon.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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