Re: Snowball and Perl

Olly Betts wrote:

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 12:19:40PM +0200, Juan Francisco Fernandez Carrasco wrote:
> I am trying to add snowball stemmers for Spanish, Italian and English
> (Catalan and Basque
> would be welcome but I see they are not available) to a Perl
> application.

If you'd like to help out with Catalan and Basque stemmers, see:

http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/howtohelp.html

I would like to, but I lack of the linguistic knowledge to do so.
I could try it for Catalan if I would know which are the important
points of a stemmer but I have no idea about it. And about Basque,
well, it lies out of my skills.

 

> Is there any way to compile Snowball code to Perl instead of C?

I have a partially written Snowball backend which would generate Perl
code instead of C, but I've not had enough time to work on it much.
It's probably not too far from working though if someone wants to
try and get it working.

> Could you give me any advice or workaround to achieve that aim?

The other approaches are to use XS (or similar) wrappers to call the C
version from Perl, or to use a separate Perl implementation.  Oleg
provided a link to Perl wrappers (and a couple of reasons for preferring
them).
 

Thanks all for your help. I've found the wrappers and I am trying to put
them up and
running.

Best,

  Juan Fra
 

 
Cheers,
    Olly

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