stemmer

Porter stemming algorithm.

Install

This package is ESM only: Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be imported instead of required.

npm:

npm install stemmer

API

This package exports the following identifiers: stemmer. There is no default export.

import {stemmer} from 'stemmer'

stemmer('considerations') // => 'consider'
stemmer('detestable') // => 'detest'
stemmer('vileness') // => 'vile'

CLI

Usage: stemmer [options] <words...>

Porter Stemmer algorithm

Options:

  -h, --help           output usage information
  -v, --version        output version number

Usage:

# output stems
$ stemmer considerations
# consider

# output stems from stdin
$ echo "detestable vileness" | stemmer
# detest vile

Related

• stmr.c — C API
• stmr — C CLI
• lancaster-stemmer — Lancaster stemming algorithm
• double-metaphone — Double Metaphone implementation
• soundex-code — Fast Soundex implementation
• dice-coefficient — Sørensen–Dice coefficient
• levenshtein-edit-distance — Levenshtein edit distance
• syllable — Syllable count in an English word

License

MIT © Titus Wormer