[LUCENENET-551] Latin language Stemmer (feature request)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Do
• Affects Version/s: Lucene.Net 3.0.3, Lucene.Net 4.8.0
• Component/s: Lucene.Net Contrib, Lucene.Net.Analysis.Common
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Peter Halasz
• Created: 25/Jan/15 01:26
• Updated: 14/Mar/20 12:08
• Resolved: 14/Mar/20 12:08

Description

I would find a Latin language stemmer very helpful. The Schinke Latin stemming algorithm has been converted to Snowball here: http://snowball.tartarus.org/otherapps/schinke/intro.html . I have not worked out how to compile Snowball into .cs to try it.

There are currently 5 romance-languages supported (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Romanian). so if the above doesn't work, I imagine one of these could be modified to support Latin.

I realise SF.Snowball is considered a contrib package rather than core, but Lucene.Net seems to be the main place where Snowball stemmers are provided and maintained for C# / .Net.

Note, other language ports of Snowball support Latin (using the Schinke contribution), such as Ruby: https://github.com/aurelian/ruby-stemmer