Class: stemmer

Methods

staticmmir.grammar.stemmer.stem(word){String}

semantic/stemmer.js, line 12

Simplified German snowball stemmer: Really simple JavaScript stemmer based on the Snowball stemmer http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/german/stemmer.html Some simplifications were made, e.g. ignoring R2 and the special provision for words ending in -isse-

Name	Type	Description
word	String	the (German) word that should be stemmed

Properties:

Name	Type	Description
allowUmlauts	Boolean	allow umlauts in stemmed words (DEFAULT: false)

Returns:

Type	Description
String	the stemmed word

Example

mmir.require(['mmirf/stemmer'], function(stem){

  var strStemmed = stem('abspielen');      // -> "abspiel"
  var strStemmedUmlauts = stem('anhören'); // -> "anhor"

  // disable stemming umlauts
  // (by default, umlauts will be "normalized")
  stem.allowUmlauts = true;
  var strWithUmlauts = stem('anhören');   // -> "anhör"

});