Package nltk :: Package stem :: Module snowball2 :: Class _LanguageSpecificStemmer

type _LanguageSpecificStemmer

  object --+    
           |    
api.StemmerI --+
               |
              _LanguageSpecificStemmer

Known Subclasses:

This helper subclass offers the possibility to invoke a specific stemmer directly. This is useful if you already know the language to be stemmed at runtime.

Instance Methods

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__init__(self, ignore_stopwords=False)
Create an instance of the Snowball stemmer.

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__repr__(self)
Print out the string representation of the respective class.

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Inherited from api.StemmerI: stem

Method Details

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init(self, ignore_stopwords=False)
(Constructor)

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Create an instance of the Snowball stemmer.

Parameters:

ignore_stopwords (bool) - If set to True, stopwords are not stemmed and returned unchanged. Set to False by default.

Overrides: object.__init__

repr(self)
(Representation operator)

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Print out the string representation of the respective class.

Overrides: object.__repr__

type _LanguageSpecificStemmer

__init__(self, ignore_stopwords=False) (Constructor)

__repr__(self) (Representation operator)

init(self, ignore_stopwords=False)
(Constructor)

repr(self)
(Representation operator)