Package edu.mit.jwi.morph

Provides several simple classes that can be used to find the stems of words using Wordnet.

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Interface Summary

Interface	Description
IStemmer	A stemmer is an object that can transform surface forms of words into a stem, also known as a root form, base form, or headword.
IStemmingRule	A rule for deriving a stem (a.k.a., root or lemma) from a word.

Class Summary

Class	Description
SimpleStemmer	Provides simple a simple pattern-based stemming facility based on the "Rules of Detachment" as described in the morphy man page in the Wordnet distribution, which can be found at http://wordnet.princeton.edu/man/morphy.7WN.html It also attempts to strip "ful" endings.
StemmingRule	Default implementation of the IStemmingRule interface.
WordnetStemmer	This stemmer adds functionality to the simple pattern-based stemmer SimpleStemmer by checking to see if possible stems are actually contained in Wordnet.

Package edu.mit.jwi.morph Description

Provides several simple classes that can be used to find the stems of words using Wordnet.