The
Snowball> dictionary template is based on a project
by Martin Porter, inventor of the popular Porter's stemming algorithm
for the English language. Snowball now provides stemming algorithms for
- many languages (see the
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+ many languages (see the
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site for more information). Each algorithm understands how to
reduce common variant forms of words to a base, or stem, spelling within
its language. A Snowball dictionary requires a language>