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NAME

Lingua::Stem::It - Porter’s stemming algorithm for Italian

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::Stem::It;
my $stems = Lingua::Stem::It::stem({ -words => $word_list_reference,
-locale => 'it',
-exceptions => $exceptions_hash,
});
my $stem = Lingua::Stem::It::stem_word( $word );

DESCRIPTION

This module applies the Porter Stemming Algorithm to its parameters, returning the stemmed words.

The algorithm is implemented exactly (I hope :-) as described in:

http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/italian/stemmer.html

The code is carefully crafted to work in conjunction with the Lingua::Stem module by Benjamin Franz, from which I’ve also borrowed some functionalities (caching and exception list).

METHODS

stem({ -words => \@words, -locale => ’it’, -exceptions => \%exceptions
});

Stems a list of passed words. Returns an anonymous list reference to the stemmed words.

Example:

my $stemmed_words = Lingua::Stem::It::stem({ -words => \@words,
-locale => 'it',
-exceptions => \%exceptions,
});

stem_word( $word );

Stems a single word and returns the stem directly.

Example:

my $stem = Lingua::Stem::It::stem_word( $word );

stem_caching({ -level => 0|1|2 });

Sets the level of stem caching.

’0’ means ’no caching’. This is the default level.

’1’ means ’cache per run’. This caches stemming results during a single
call to ’stem’.

’2’ means ’cache indefinitely’. This caches stemming results until
either the process exits or the ’clear_stem_cache’ method is called.

clear_stem_cache;

Clears the cache of stemmed words

EXPORT
None by default.

AUTHOR

Aldo Calpini, dada AT perl DOT it

SEE ALSO

Lingua::Stem

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) Aldo Calpini, dada AT perl DOT it. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.