Package nltk :: Package stem :: Module api :: Class StemmerI

Class StemmerI

object --+
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        StemmerI

Known Subclasses:

lancaster.LancasterStemmer
, porter.PorterStemmer
, rslp.RSLPStemmer
, regexp.RegexpStemmer
, StemI
, wordnet.WordnetStemmer

A processing interface for removing morphological affixes from words. This process is known as stemming.

Instance Methods

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stem(self, token)
Strip affixes from the token and return the stem.

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Inherited from object: __delattr__, __getattribute__, __hash__, __init__, __new__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __repr__, __setattr__, __str__

Properties

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Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

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stem(self, token)

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Strip affixes from the token and return the stem.

Parameters:

token (str) - The token that should be stemmed.