snowball

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Snowball Stemmer for Go

Usage

package snowball_test

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/tebeka/snowball"
)

func Example() {
	fmt.Printf("%d languages\n", len(snowball.Languages()))
	stemmer, err := snowball.New("english")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("error", err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(stemmer.Stem("running"))
	// Output:
	// 26 languages
	// run
}

For bugs, comments, sources and more - head over to https://github.com/tebeka/snowball.

This project was mostly a learning exercise for me, I don't consider it production quality.

---

Miki Tebeka miki.tebeka@gmail.com

Documentation

Overview

Package snowball implements a stemmer

Example

package main

import (
	"fmt"

	"github.com/tebeka/snowball"
)

func main() {
	fmt.Printf("%d languages\n", len(snowball.Languages()))
	stemmer, err := snowball.New("english")
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println("error", err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(stemmer.Stem("running"))
}

Output:
29 languages
run

Index

• Constants
• func LangList() []string
• func Languages() []string
• type Stemmer
  • func New(lang string) (*Stemmer, error)
  • func (stmr *Stemmer) Lang() string
  • func (stmr *Stemmer) Stem(word string) string

Examples

• Package

Constants

const (
	// Version is the library version
	Version = "0.6.0"
	// SnowballVersion is the underlying snowball library version
	SnowballVersion = "2.2.0"
)

Functions

func LangList

func LangList() []string

LangList returns the list of languages supported by snowball DEPRECATED: Use Languages

func Languages

func Languages() []string

Languages returns the list of languages supported by snowball

Types

type Stemmer

type Stemmer struct {
	// contains filtered or unexported fields
}

Stemmer structure Warning: Stemmers are not goroutine safe, create a stemmer per gorutine or use a pool (such as sync.Pool) to esnure safty.

func New

func New(lang string) (*Stemmer, error)

New creates a new stemmer for lang

func (*Stemmer) Lang

func (stmr *Stemmer) Lang() string

Lang return the stemmer language

func (*Stemmer) Stem

func (stmr *Stemmer) Stem(word string) string

Stem returns them stem of word (e.g. running -> run)