kea.stemmers
Class FrenchStemmer

java.lang.Object
  kea.stemmers.Stemmer
      kea.stemmers.FrenchStemmer

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class FrenchStemmer
extends Stemmer

A stemmer for French words. The algorithm is based on the work of Dr Martin Porter on his snowball project
refer to http://snowball.sourceforge.net/french/stemmer.html
(French stemming algorithm) for details

Author:

Patrick Talbot

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

FrenchStemmer()

Method Summary

java.lang.String

stem(java.lang.String str) Iterated stemming of the given word.

Methods inherited from class kea.stemmers.Stemmer

stemString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

FrenchStemmer

public FrenchStemmer()

Method Detail

stem

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

Description copied from class: Stemmer

Iterated stemming of the given word.

Specified by:

stem in class Stemmer