// Modified by Yen-Ju Chen /* This is the Porter stemming algorithm, coded up as thread-safe ANSI C by the author. It may be be regarded as cononical, in that it follows the algorithm presented in Porter, 1980, An algorithm for suffix stripping, Program, Vol. 14, no. 3, pp 130-137, only differing from it at the points maked --DEPARTURE-- below. See also http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer The algorithm as described in the paper could be exactly replicated by adjusting the points of DEPARTURE, but this is barely necessary, because (a) the points of DEPARTURE are definitely improvements, and (b) no encoding of the Porter stemmer I have seen is anything like as exact as this version, even with the points of DEPARTURE! You can compile it on Unix with 'gcc -O3 -o stem stem.c' after which 'stem' takes a list of inputs and sends the stemmed equivalent to stdout. The algorithm as encoded here is particularly fast. Release 2 (the more old-fashioned, non-thread-safe version may be regarded as release 1.) */ struct stemmer; struct stemmer * create_stemmer(void); void free_stemmer(struct stemmer * z); int stem(struct stemmer * z, char * b, int k);