Norwegian stemmer

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I have tried the Norwegian stemmer together with our search engine at 
www.ssb.no and I ran into some problems. 

It is my opinion that the letter "k" should be removed from the 
define_s_ending. 

There are many Norwegian words that end in "ks", and where the "s" is not 
genitive. I.e. the Norwegian word for salmon - laks. If you remove the s here 
the word "lak" has no meaning. Other examples from the Norwegian test 
vocabulary of Snowball are: boks, heks, juks

To me it seems like there is a tendency over time in Norwegian not to use the 
genitive "s" and use separate words instead, like in English to use the word 
"of" instead of  's. 

I also enclose an updated version of the Norwegian list of stopwords. The list 
included some Swedish and Danish words, like "inte". Maybe the list was made by 
a person who do not have Norwegian as their native language.  I also removed 
some duplicates. I also added the words: bare, enn, fordi, før, mange, også, 
slik, vært. 

Regards

Jan Bruusgaard
Statistics Norway

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