org.apache.lucene.analysis.fr

Class FrenchStemmer


public class FrenchStemmer
extends Object

A stemmer for French words. The algorithm is based on the work of Dr Martin Porter on his snowball project
refer to http://snowball.sourceforge.net/french/stemmer.html
(French stemming algorithm) for details
Author:
Patrick Talbot

Method Summary

protected String
stem(String term)
Stemms the given term to a unique discriminator.

Method Details

stem

protected String stem(String term)
Stemms the given term to a unique discriminator.
Parameters:
term - java.langString The term that should be stemmed
Returns:
java.lang.String Discriminator for term

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