org.apache.lucene.analysis.fr
Class FrenchStemmer

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.lucene.analysis.fr.FrenchStemmer

public class FrenchStemmer
extends java.lang.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

Constructor Summary

FrenchStemmer()

Method Summary

protected java.lang.String

stem(java.lang.String term) Stems the given term to a unique discriminator.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FrenchStemmer

public FrenchStemmer()

Method Detail

stem

protected java.lang.String stem(java.lang.String term)

Stems the given term to a unique discriminator.

Parameters:

term - java.langString The term that should be stemmed

Returns:

java.lang.String Discriminator for term