lazlyhu / greek_stemmer

A simple Greek stemming library

GreekStemmer

A simple Greek stemmer algorithm.

This algorithm is based on this paper from George Ntais.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'greek_stemmer'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install greek_stemmer

Usage

In order to use this stemmer you should normalize input. Normalization means two things for this algorithm: detone and upcase.

  require 'greek_stemmer'

  GreekStemmer.stem("ΠΟΣΟΤΗΤΑ") # => "ΠΟΣΟΤΗΤ"

References

• Development of a Stemmer for the Greek Language

Credits

Original work: bandito

Contributing

1. Fork it ( http://github.com//greek_stemmer/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Perform changes and run bundle exec rake update_greek_stemming_sample to update the stemming samples
4. Commit your changes (git commit -a)
5. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
6. Create new Pull Request

License

greek_stemmer is licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE for details.