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Porter English#

The Porter English stemmer reduces English words to their root form using the Porter algorithm. For example, the word "caresses" is stemmed to "caress" and "ponies" is stemmed to "poni."

Parameters#

This stemmer does not have any parameters.

Example#

use Rubix\ML\Tokenizers\Stemmers\PorterEnglish;

$stemmer = new PorterEnglish();

echo $stemmer->stem('caresses');
// caress

References#

  1. M. F. Porter. (1980). An algorithm for suffix stripping. Program, 14(3), 130-137. ↩