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snowballstemmer: Stemmer algorithms for natural language processing in Python
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Description
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This package provides 16 stemmer algorithms (15 + Poerter English
stemmer) generated from Snowball algorithms.

It includes following language algorithms:

-  Danish
-  Dutch
-  English (Standard, Porter)
-  Finnish
-  French
-  German
-  Hungarian
-  Italian
-  Norwegian
-  Portuguese
-  Romanian
-  Russian
-  Spanish
-  Swedish
-  Turkish

This is a pure Python stemming library. If PyStemmer is available, this
module uses it to accelerate.

Type
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standard


Version Information
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package-version.txt::

    1.2.1.p0

install-requires.txt::

    snowballstemmer >=1.2.1


Equivalent System Packages
--------------------------

conda:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ conda install python:snowballstemmer

opensuse:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ sudo zypper install python:snowballstemmer

See https://repology.org/project/python:snowballstemmer/versions

However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage
because using Python site-packages is not supported by the Sage distribution;
see https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29023