# indostemmer
Indonesian Language Word Stemmer
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PROJECT TITLE: Indo Porter Stemmer
PURPOSE OF PROJECT: Indonesian Words Stemmer
VERSION or DATE: April 2009
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AUTHORS: Benny Lin (@bennylin)
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This project was made way back in 2009 for a single purpose.
Now after serving that purpose well enough for 6 years, I'm
releasing the sourcecode to be used by others. 

At that time there were no other Indonesian Stemmer good enough
for our needs, so I built this using Porter Stemmer (English), 
and it was optimized for a single corpus of text. 

As far as I remember, it worked with Lucene and SOLR, and you 
might need to download other repos to compile it properly.
My main contribution can be found in IndoStemmer.java.

Since then (2009) I have never touched it again. I'm sure it 
could be improved somewhat, and if you're planning to do that, 
please do let me know.

My final comment is: Indonesian affixes are very complex, 
typical for Austronesian languages, but still nowhere as complex
as Javanese. My hope is someday I can build a Javanese Stemmer.

It's been fun doing this project. Hope this code can be useful
for you too.


Solo, April 2015
Benny Lin