Leo Galambos wrote:
Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: __________
How proficient must I be in a language for which I wish to write the stemmer?
I would venture to say you would need to be an expert in a language to write a decent stemmer.
I'm sorry for a self-promo ;), but the stemmer of egothor project can be adapted to any language, and you needn't be a language expert. Moreover, the stemmer achieves better F-measure than Porter's stemmers.
No reason to be too modest, Leo.. I tested your stemmer on English, Swedish and Polish texts (including F-measure vs. training set size plots), and it works exceptionally well indeed. Highly recommended!
-- Best regards, Andrzej Bialecki
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