wink-porter2-stemmer

Implementation of Porter Stemmer Algorithm V2 by Dr Martin F Porter

Stem an inflected word into its base form using wink-porter2-stemmer. It is a part of wink — a growing family of high quality packages for Statistical Analysis, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning in NodeJS.

Installation

Use npm to install:

npm install wink-porter2-stemmer --save

Example

// Load porter stemmer V2
var stem = require( 'wink-porter2-stemmer' );
 
console.log( stem( 'properly' ) );
// -> proper
 
console.log( stem( 'borrowed' ) );
// -> borrow
 
console.log( stem( 'stemming' ) );
// -> stem

API

Table of Contents

• stem

stem

Stems an inflected word using Porter2 stemming algorithm.

Parameters

• word string — word to be stemmed.

Examples

stem( 'consisting' );
// -> consist

Returns string — the stemmed word.

Need Help?

If you spot a bug and the same has not yet been reported, raise a new issue or consider fixing it and sending a pull request.

Copyright & License

wink-porter2-stemmer is copyright 2017 GRAYPE Systems Private Limited.

It is licensed under the under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.