Lingua::Stem::Snowball

Perl6 binding for the "Snowball compiler" http://snowballstem.org/

Status: ALPHA

• No Snowball code shipped, you need to install it from its own repo.
• NativeCalls are implemented to emulate the libstemmer.h file.
• Only the load and sb_stemmer_stem tests are implemented.
• NEED ASAP lots and lots of tests.

Functions working

• sb_stemmer_list() returns CArray[Str]
• sb_stemmer_new(Str, Str) returns sb_stemmer
• sb_stemmer_delete(sb_stemmer)
• sb_stemmer_stem(sb_stemmer, Str, int32 ) returns CArray[uint8]
• sb_stemmer_length(sb_stemmer) returns int32

TODO

• Write a gazillion tests
• Clone functions from the perl5's Lingua::Stem::Snowball

Installation

1. You need to install the libstemmer.so shared library from this repository Sufrostico/snowball because the patch to generate the shared library has not been a accepted yet.

   To install the library

    $ git clone git@github.com:Sufrostico/snowball.git sufrostico-snowball
    $ cd sufrostico-snowball
    $ make

Then as root install the .h (usr/include) and .so (user/lib) files.

    # make install_shared_library

1. Install this module

    $ git clone git@github.com:Sufrostico/perl6-snowball.git
    $ cd perl6-snowball
    $ panda install .

Contributors

• Altai-man