hi, i think the stemmer_api is a very good idea / module.

To get other people using it, i suggest to separate it form the german stemmer module.

-> eg. someone using a stemmer in a other language does not even find this module.

If the stemmer_api is separated, then it has the chance to get adequate attention.

What do you think?

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schildi’s picture

Hello Thomas
thanks for your interests, but when developing the api-module I contacted the authors of several other stemmers. The answers I got were that there is absolutely no need for such a module.

Thomas_Zahreddin’s picture

Issue tags: +stop words, +stop word

Hallo Rainer,

:-( this is topic that frustrates me.

see http://drupal.org/node/1156708#comment-4814424

at least 3 different modules have their own way to handle stop words and i don't think i found them all … and as you mentioned: there are other stemming modules too - what do these guys think how much effort it is to put in stop words for every module and every language - think of a site with only four languages and maybe 3 modules with some kind of stop word or stemming.

schildi’s picture

Thomas

as far as I remember they argued that the hard coded lists of stop words and exception are valid and sufficient. And I did not see any other stemmer offering a way to online modify these lists.

But of course: I can hand over the api-module to you :-)

Thomas_Zahreddin’s picture

hm, i'd love to have a stemmer / stop word api,

but i do not have the time to maintain this module, and also with the perspective that this is a api with only one module using it.

But is it a issue for D8?

schildi’s picture

it's not really clear to me what you want and is not possible with the current release of the module.
Other stemmers should interact with the api-module with only tiny modifications (compare the three small function at top of file de_stemmer.module).

schildi’s picture

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It took me about one hour to set up a patch which makes the api functionalities available for the english porter stemmer (see attached patch for D7).

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Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)