ir.utilities

Class Porter

java.lang.Object

ir.utilities.Porter

public class Porter
extends java.lang.Object

The Porter stemmer for reducing words to their base stem form.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Porter()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) For testing, print the stemmed version of a word
java.lang.String	stripAffixes(java.lang.String str) Takes a String as input and returns its stem as a String.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Porter

public Porter()

Method Detail

stripAffixes

public java.lang.String stripAffixes(java.lang.String str)

Takes a String as input and returns its stem as a String.

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)
                 throws java.io.IOException

For testing, print the stemmed version of a word

Throws:

java.io.IOException