README

PHP native implementation of Snowball stemmer https://snowballstem.org/

Accept only UTF-8

• Languages
• Installation
• Usage

Languages

Available :

• Catalan (by Orestes Sanchez Benavente orestes@estotienearreglo.es)
• Danish
• Dutch
• English
• Finnish (by Mikko Saari)
• French
• German
• Italian
• Norwegian
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Spanish
• Swedish

Installation

Requires PHP 8.0+

You can install the package via composer:

composer require masroore/php-stemmer

Usage

use Kaiju\Snowball\StemmerFactory;

// use ISO_639 (2 or 3 letters) or language name in english
$stemmer = StemmerFactory::create('fr');
$stemmer = StemmerFactory::create ('spanish');

// then 
$stem = $stemmer->stem('automóvil');

Or the manager

use Kaiju\Snowball\StemmerManager;

$manager = new StemmerManager();
$stem = $manager->stem('automóvil', 'es');