Package nltk :: Package stem :: Module regexp :: Class RegexpStemmer

type RegexpStemmer

  object --+    
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api.StemmerI --+
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              RegexpStemmer

A stemmer that uses regular expressions to identify morphological affixes. Any substrings that match the regular expressions will be removed.

Instance Methods

__init__(self, regexp, min=0)
Create a new regexp stemmer.

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stem(self, word)
Strip affixes from the token and return the stem.

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Method Details

Create a new regexp stemmer.

Parameters:

regexp (string or regexp) - The regular expression that should be used to identify morphological affixes.
min (int) - The minimum length of string to stem

Overrides: object.__init__

Strip affixes from the token and return the stem.

Parameters:

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