RWeka (version 0.4-17)

Weka_stemmers: R/Weka Stemmers

Description

R interfaces to Weka stemmers.

Usage

IteratedLovinsStemmer(x, control = NULL)
LovinsStemmer(x, control = NULL)

Arguments

x
a character vector with words to be stemmed.
control
an object of class Weka_control, or a character vector of control options, or NULL (default). Available options can be obtained on-line using the Weka Option Wizard

Value

  • A character vector with the stemmed words.

Details

The R interface to Weka's Snowball stemmers is available as function SnowballStemmer in package Snowball (as it requires a jar with the Java version of the Snowball stemmers which cannot be included in package RWeka due to license restrictions).

References

J. B. Lovins (1968), Development of a stemming algorithm. Mechanical Translation and Computational Linguistics 11, 22--31.

See Also

SnowballStemmer