On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 06:55:27AM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:51:11PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote: > > * Package name : liblingua-stem-snowball-perl > > Version : 0.941 > > Upstream Author : Marvin Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * URL : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-Stem-Snowball/ > > * License : Dual GPL/Artistic, portions BSD > > Programming Lang: Perl, C > > Description : Perl interface to Snowball stemmers > > > > Stemming reduces related words to a common root form. For instance, > > "horse", "horses", and "horsing" all become "hors". Most commonly, > > stemming is deployed as part of a search application, allowing searches > > for a given term to match documents which contain other forms of that > > term. > > What is the relation of this module to things like > liblingua-stem-snowball-da-perl, libsnowball-norwegian-perl, and > libsnowball-swedish-perl?
These existing modules are pure-perl implementations of individual language stemming algorithms, whereas Lingua::Stem::Snowball contains bindings to the C implementation of snowball stemmers for around 12 different languages. See also the rest of the long description which you snipped, and http://search.cpan.org/dist/Lingua-Stem/lib/Lingua/Stem.pod#Comparision_with_Lingua::Stem::Snowball (Lingua::Stem uses Lingua::Stem::Snowball::{Da,No,Se} modules, in addition to its own stemmers. Cheers, Dominic. -- Dominic Hargreaves | http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/ PGP key 5178E2A5 from the.earth.li (keyserver,web,email) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]