word stemming / conflation

[Andreas Jung]

Sorry, that was the wrong URL. Take this one:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pystemmer/

Andreas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andreas Jung" <andreas at andreas-jung.com>
To: "Terry Hancock" <hancock at anansispaceworks.com>; <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 22:00
Subject: Re: word stemming / conflation


> I have written  wrappers for the snowball stemmers of
> Dr. Porter: http://pystemmer.sourceforge.net.
>
> Andreas
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry Hancock" <hancock at anansispaceworks.com>
> To: <python-list at python.org>
> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 09:44
> Subject: word stemming / conflation
>
>
> > I was working on an algorithm to condense strings of
> > text into mnemonic labels (hopefully this will produce
> > more meaningful labels than simply assigning a number!).
> > I got the idea from the way later versions of
> > latex2html generate filenames.
> >
> > Anyway, after tinkering with this for awhile I've
> > discovered that it can be a bottomless pit! A little
> > web research reveals various MS / PhD papers for doing
> > this task (which apparently is called "conflation" as
> > well as "word stemming") in English and lots of other
> > languages. Looks like it's a lot harder than you
> > might at first think. I didn't find much in Python,
> > though.
> >
> > So, I'm wondering if there are some Python resources
> > (or better-yet already written modules) for doing
> > this sort of thing.  I don't really need a completely
> > robust system -- the occasional error will be quite
> > tolerable. So I'm more interested in quick and simple
> > solutions that work most of the time, rather than
> > the ultra-robust library-science type.
> >
> > Thanks for any information or leads you might be
> > able to suggest,
> >
> > Terry
> >
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