Snowball

Snowball is a small string processing language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval. Several useful stemmers which have been implemented using it, covering languages such as:

• English (porter)

• English (porter2)

• Romance stemmers

  • French

  • Spanish

  • Portuguese

  • Italian

• Germanic stemmers

  • German

  • (German variant)

  • Dutch

• Scandinavian stemmers

  • Swedish

  • Norwegian

  • Danish

• Russian

• Finnish

Homepage: http://snowball.tartarus.org

Snowball is the child of MartinPorter, who designed the famous PorterStemmingAlgorithm.