| Port variant | standard |
| Summary | String proc lang for creating stemming algorithms |
| Package version | 2.2.0 |
| Homepage | https://snowballstem.org/ |
| Keywords | textproc |
| Maintainer | Michael Reim |
| License | BSD3CLAUSE |
| Other variants | There are no other variants. |
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| Last modified | 12 DEC 2023, 18:55:48 UTC |
| Port created | 12 DEC 2023, 18:55:48 UTC |
| complete | This is the snowball-standard metapackage. It pulls in all subpackages of snowball-standard. |
| primary | Snowball is a small string processing language for creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval, plus a collection of stemming algorithms implemented using it. Stemming means mapping different forms of the same word to a common "stem" - for example, the English stemmer maps 'connection', 'connections', 'connective', 'connected', and 'connecting' to 'connect'. So a searching for connected would also find documents which only have the other forms. This stem form is often a word itself, but this is not always the case as this is not a requirement for text search systems, which are the intended field of use. We also aim to conflate words with the same meaning, rather than all words with a common linguistic root (so 'awe' and 'awful' don't have the same stem), and over-stemming is more problematic than under-stemming so we tend not to stem in cases that are hard to resolve. If you want to always reduce words to a root form and/or get a root form which is itself a word then Snowball's stemming algorithms likely aren't the right answer. |
| libstemmer_c | This library contains all you need to include the snowball stemming algorithms into a C project of your own. You don't need to use the snowball compiler or worry about the internals of the stemmers in any way. |
| dev | This is the developer subpackage of the snowball-standard port. It may contain headers, pc files, static and PIC libraries and SO links. |
| Build (only) |
gmake:primary:standard perl-5.36:primary:standard |
| Runtime (only) | snowball:libstemmer_c:standard (primary subpackage) |
| main | mirror://GITHUB/snowballstem:snowball:v2.2.0 |
| appstream:standard | Standard for machine-readable software metadata |
| libxmlb:standard | Library to help create and query binary XML blobs |