Re: German Stemmer

I am sorry I was not clear, "Papieres" was a typo.

Thanks, I believe I found the problem elsewhere.

Gary Davidson





> From: martin.porter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Martin Porter)
> To: "Gary Davidson" <sql_1@xxxxxxxxxxx>, 
> snowball-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Snowball-discuss] German Stemmer
> Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 12:12:56 GMT
>
>
> >The German words "Papiere" and "Papieres" do not stem to the same
> >root "papiere" as I thought they would. Is there some reason for this? As
> >I am a programmer and not a linguist I am at a loss.
> >
> >TIA
> >
> >Gary Davidson
>
>
> Gary,
>
> No, they don't stem to papiere, but they do stem to the same form (papi),
> which means that they are conflated by the stemming process.
>
> Stemming is not exact in the way you seem to expect - see the introductory
> document on the snowball site -
>
> http://snowball.tartarus.org/texts/introduction.html
>
> Martin

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