Nodejs jSnowball Stemmer
Snowball is a small string processing language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval. The Nodejs verion of the Snowball Stemmer supports 17 languages
The Snowball stemmer can be found on their homepage. http://snowball.tartarus.org
## Supported Languages - danish - dutch - english - finnish - german - hungarian - italian - norwegian - romanian - russian - spanish - swedish - porter - portuguese - romanian - spanish - turkish
Installation
The Snowball stemmer uses Node-Java internally. Make sure your system is configured properly to run Node-Java. https://github.com/joeferner/node-java
Usage
var SnowBall = require('jsnowball');
var snowBall = new SnowBall('english');
snowBall.stem('Checks if word is stemmed',function(error,response){
console.log(response);/// [ 'Check', 'if', 'word', 'is', 'stem' ]
});
Tested on:
- Node.js : v0.12.7
- java version "1.8.0_31"
- Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_31-b13)
- Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.31-b07, mixed mode)
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