I'd like to use the stemmer here for merging word counts.
http://snowball.tartarus.org/download.html
The page has a download link, but I'm not sure how to integrate the files into my eclipse project
Its not just a jar to drop into my lib folder, its a file system.
Does anyone know of some documentation explaining this, as I didn't see any on the website.
(As in, what do i import, how do I call it etc..)
Answer
Build the jar file and add it to your Build Path.
Details:
- Download the tgz with the code from here http://snowball.tartarus.org/download.php
- Uncompress.
- Go to libstemmer_java directory and read README.
- Follow instructions to compile (using javac).
- You might have to correct or remove java/org/tartarus/snowball/ext/frenchStemmer.java because it has an error and doesn't compile.
- Create jar file: Go to libstemmer_java/java directory then jar cvf libstemmer.jar *
- Add libstemmer.jar to your Build Path (in Eclipse: Project-Properties-Java Build Path-Libreries Tab).
Then you can use the stemmers doing something like:
import org.tartarus.snowball.ext.spanishStemmer;
...
spanishStemmer stemmer = new spanishStemmer();
stemmer.setCurrent("torero");
if (stemmer.stem()){
System.out.println(stemmer.getCurrent());
}