Porter Stemmer

Martin Porter stemmer algorithm written in JavaScript. Reference: https://tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer/

Features

• Follows original procedural implementation with char buffer and index pointers for the best performance.
• Processes the 23k words test suit in 11ms on mobile i5 in node js.
• It's just one big function that takes string and returns string, no side effects, classes or module scoped regexes.
• Both ESM and CJS exports.

How to use

npm i porter-stemmer-js

import { PorterStemmer } from "porter-stemmer-js"

// the word to stem must be lower case with no trailing spaces or symbols

const stemmedWord = PorterStemmer("running");

console.log(stemmedWord) // "run"

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.