Rust Stemmers

This crate implements some stemmer algorithms found in the snowball project which are compiled to rust using the rust-backend of the snowball compiler.

Supported Algorithms

Arabic
Danish
Dutch
English
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Tamil
Turkish

Usage

extern crate rust_stemmers;
use rust_stemmers::{Algorithm, Stemmer};

// Create a stemmer for the english language
let en_stemmer = Stemmer::create(Algorithm::English);

// Stemm the word "fruitlessly"
// Please be aware that all algorithms expect their input to only contain lowercase characters.
assert_eq!(en_stemmer.stem("fruitlessly"), "fruitless");

Related Projects

The stemmer crate provides bindings to the C Snowball implementation.