libstemmer_java

This document pertains to the Java version of the libstemmer distribution, available for download from:

http://snowballstem.org/dist/libstemmer_java.tgz

Compiling the library

Simply run the java compiler on all the java source files under the java directory. For example, this can be done under unix by changing directory into the java directory, and running:

javac org/tartarus/snowball/*.java org/tartarus/snowball/ext/*.java

This will compile the library and also an example program "TestApp" which provides a command line interface to the library.

Using the library

There is currently no formal documentation on the use of the Java version of the library. Additionally, its interface is not guaranteed to be stable.

The best documentation of the library is the source of the TestApp example program.

The TestApp example

The TestApp example program allows you to run any of the stemmers compiled into the libstemmer library on a sample vocabulary. For details on how to use it, run it with no command line parameters.

Test Arabic Stemmer Algorithm

Compile and run :

     -1 `cd libstemmer_java/java`
     -2 `javac TestArabicStemmer.java`
     -3  `java TestArabicStemmer` // in this file i used العربية as input
     -4  output : `عرب`