Lingua::Stem::Fr (3pm)

    use Lingua::Stem::Fr;

    my $stems = Lingua::Stem::Fr::stem({ -words => $word_list_reference,
                                         -locale => 'fr',
                                         -exceptions => $exceptions_hash,
                                      });

    my $stem = Lingua::Stem::Fr::stem_word( $word );

This module use the a modified version of the Porter Stemming Algorithm to return a stemmed words.

The algorithm is implemented as described in:

http://snowball.tartarus.org/french/stemmer.html

with some improvement.

The code is carefully crafted to work in conjunction with the Lingua::Stem module by Benjamin Franz. This french version is based too, on the work of Aldo Calpini (Italian Version)

• stem({ -words => \@words, -locale => 'fr', -exceptions => \%exceptions }); Stems a list of passed words. Returns an anonymous list reference to the stemmed words. Example: my $stemmed_words = Lingua::Stem::Fr::stem({ -words => \@words, -locale => 'fr', -exceptions => \%exceptions, });

• stem_word( $word ); Stems a single word and returns the stem directly. Example: my $stem = Lingua::Stem::Fr::stem_word( $word );

• stem_caching({ -level => 0|1|2 }); Sets the level of stem caching. '0' means 'no caching'. This is the default level. '1' means 'cache per run'. This caches stemming results during a single

      call to 'stem'.
  

  '2' means 'cache indefinitely'. This caches stemming results until

      either the process exits or the 'clear_stem_cache' method is called.
  

• clear_stem_cache; Clears the cache of stemmed words

0.01

Original version; created by h2xs 1.23 with options -ACX -n Lingua::Stem::Fr

0.02

Minor change in documentation and disable of limitation to perl 5.8.3+

You can see the French stemming algorithm from Mr Porter here :

http://snowball.tartarus.org/french/stemmer.html

Another French stemming tool in Perl (French page) :

http://www.univ-nancy2.fr/pers/namer/Telecharger_Flemm.html

Se\*'bastien Darribere-Pleyt, <[email protected]>

Copyright (C) 2003 by Aldo Calpini <[email protected]>

Copyright (C) 2004 by Se\*'bastien Darribere-Pleyt <[email protected]>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.

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