Interface Stemmer

All Superinterfaces:

Function<String,String>

All Known Implementing Classes:

LancasterStemmer, PorterStemmer

public interface Stemmer
extends Function<String,String>

A Stemmer transforms a word into its root form. The stemming is a process for removing the commoner morphological and inflexional endings from words (in English). Its main use is as part of a term normalisation process.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
default String	apply(String word)
String	stem(String word)	Transforms a word into its root form.

Methods inherited from interface Function

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Method Details

stem

String stem(String word)

Transforms a word into its root form.

Parameters:

word - the word.

Returns:

the stem.

apply

default String apply(String word)

Specified by:

apply in interface Function<String,String>