weka.core.stemmers

Interface Stemmer

All Superinterfaces:

RevisionHandler, java.io.Serializable

All Known Implementing Classes:

IteratedLovinsStemmer, LovinsStemmer, NullStemmer, SnowballStemmer

public interface Stemmer
extends java.io.Serializable, RevisionHandler

Interface for all stemming algorithms.

Method Summary

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

Methods inherited from interface weka.core.RevisionHandler

getRevision

Method Detail

stem

java.lang.String stem(java.lang.String word)

Stems the given word and returns the stemmed version

Parameters:

word - the unstemmed word

Returns:

the stemmed word