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
• Armenian
• Basque
• Catalan
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• DutchPorter (legacy Dutch algorithm)
• English
• Esperanto
• Estonian
• Finnish
• French
• German
• Greek
• Hindi
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Irish
• Italian
• Lithuanian
• Nepali
• Norwegian
• Persian
• Polish
• Porter (original English algorithm)
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Sesotho
• Spanish
• Swedish
• Tamil
• Turkish
• Yiddish

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.