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diff --git a/python/PyStemmer/README b/python/PyStemmer/README index 161b13c630baf..849fdd32463ea 100644 --- a/python/PyStemmer/README +++ b/python/PyStemmer/README @@ -2,17 +2,19 @@ Snowball stemming algorithms, for information retrieval Stemming algorithms -PyStemmer provides access to efficient algorithms for calculating a "stemmed" -form of a word. This is a form with most of the common morphological endings -removed; hopefully representing a common linguistic base form. This is most -useful in building search engines and information retrieval software; -for example, a search with stemming enabled should be able to find a document -containing "cycling" given the query "cycles". +PyStemmer provides access to efficient algorithms for calculating a +"stemmed" form of a word. This is a form with most of the common +morphological endings removed; hopefully representing a common +linguistic base form. This is most useful in building search +engines and information retrieval software; for example, a search +with stemming enabled should be able to find a document containing +"cycling" given the query "cycles". -PyStemmer provides algorithms for several (mainly european) languages, by -wrapping the libstemmer library from the Snowball project in a Python module. +PyStemmer provides algorithms for several (mainly european) languages, +by wrapping the libstemmer library from the Snowball project in a +Python module. -It also provides access to the classic Porter stemming algorithm for english: -although this has been superceded by an improved algorithm, the original -algorithm may be of interest to information retrieval researchers wishing -to reproduce results of earlier experiments. +It also provides access to the classic Porter stemming algorithm for +english: although this has been superceded by an improved algorithm, +the original algorithm may be of interest to information retrieval +researchers wishing to reproduce results of earlier experiments. |