org.apache.lucene.analysis.fr

Class FrenchStemmer

public class FrenchStemmer extends Object

A stemmer for French words. The algorithm is based on the work of Dr Martin Porter on his snowball project
refer to http://snowball.sourceforge.net/french/stemmer.html
(French stemming algorithm) for details

Author: Patrick Talbot

Method Summary
protected Stringstem(String term)
Stemms the given term to a unique discriminator.

Method Detail

stem

protected String stem(String term)
Stemms the given term to a unique discriminator.

Parameters: term java.langString The term that should be stemmed

Returns: java.lang.String Discriminator for term

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