weka.core.stemmers

Interface Stemmer

All Superinterfaces:

RevisionHandler, Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

IteratedLovinsStemmer, LovinsStemmer, NullStemmer, SnowballStemmer

public interface Stemmer
extends Serializable, RevisionHandler

Interface for all stemming algorithms.

Version:

$Revision: 1.3 $

Author:

FracPete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	stem(String word) Stems the given word and returns the stemmed version

Methods inherited from interface weka.core.RevisionHandler

getRevision

Method Detail

stem

String stem(String word)

Stems the given word and returns the stemmed version

Parameters:

word - the unstemmed word

Returns:

the stemmed word