Snowball Snowball is a small string processing language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval. This site describes Snowball, and presents several useful stemmers which have been implemented using it.
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(Since it effectively provides a ‘suffix STRIPPER GRAMmar’, I had toyed with the idea of calling it ‘strippergram’, but good sense has prevailed, and so it is ‘Snowball’ named as a tribute to SNOBOL, the excellent string handling language of Messrs Farber, Griswold, Poage and Polonsky from the 1960s.
- Martin Porter)
Please address all Snowball-related mail to snowball-discuss@lists.tartarus.org. Any such mail sent directly to Martin Porter or Richard Boulton may be answered less speedily, and in any case they reserve the right to post their answers on snowball-discuss.
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