node-snowball

This stemming module for Node.js provides stemming capability for a variety of languages using Dr. M.F. Porter's Snowball API. That allow you to get from a word a reduced, inflected (or sometimes derived) word from the original word stem, base or root.

Examples:

A stemmer for English, for example, should identify the string "cats" (and possibly "catlike", "catty" etc.) as based on the root "cat", and "stemmer", "stemming", "stemmed" as based on "stem". A stemming algorithm reduces the words "fishing", "fished", and "fisher" to the root word, "fish". On the other hand, "argue", "argued", "argues", "arguing", and "argus" reduce to the stem "argu" (illustrating the case where the stem is not itself a word or root) but "argument" and "arguments" reduce to the stem "argument".

This library is using bindings to the libstemmer C library. It's support

More about Stemming:

• Stemming wikipedia
• Racinisation wikipedia

More about Snowball libstemmer library:

• https://snowballstem.org

Install

npm install node-snowball

Usage

var snowball = require('node-snowball');

// Using String
snowball.stemword('consignment'); // 'consign'

// Using String and a specific language algorithm
snowball.stemword('consignment', 'english'); // 'consign'
snowball.stemword('continuation', 'french'); // 'continu'

// Or using Array of string
snowball.stemword(['consignment', 'conspiring'], 'english'); // ['consign', 'conspiri']
snowball.stemword(['continuation', 'contrainte'], 'french'); // ['continu', 'contrain']

Quick Doc

snowball.stemword(
    word || words, // The word or group of words that you need the stemming from
    language,      // The language (optional, default is "english")
    encoding       // The text encoding (optional, default is "UTF-8")
);

Supported language second argument:

• arabic
• armenian
• basque
• catalan
• catalan
• danish
• dutch
• dutch
• english
• finnish
• french
• french
• german
• greek
• hindi
• hungarian
• indonesian
• irish
• italian
• lithuanian
• nepali
• norwegian
• portuguese
• romanian
• russian
• serbian
• spanish
• swedish
• tamil
• turkish
• yiddish
• porter (not a language)

Supported encoding third argument:

• UTF-8
• ISO-8859-1
• ISO-8859-2

To compile, run

Supported NodeJS versions: 14.x, 16.x, 18.x

npm run clean
npm run configure
npm run build
npm test

License

(MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2014 Harold Thetiot [email protected]

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