24 February 2005 11:00
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PorterStemmer - phpguru.org
A PHP5 only class to faciliate the stemming of word. This is the process of removing suffixs from words to produce their "stems", eg national -> nation, running -> run, adoption -> adopt. This class, as the name might suggest, implements the algorithm by Martin Porter.
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