Package nltk :: Package stem :: Module regexp :: Class RegexpStemmer

Class RegexpStemmer

  object --+    
           |    
api.StemmerI --+
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              RegexpStemmer

Known Subclasses:

A stemmer that uses regular expressions to identify morphological affixes. Any substrings that match the regular expressions will be removed.

Instance Methods

__init__(self, regexp, min=0)
Create a new regexp stemmer.

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

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__repr__(self)
repr(x)

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

Properties

Inherited from object: __class__

Method Details

Create a new regexp stemmer.

Parameters:

regexp (string or regexp) - The regular expression that should be used to identify morphological affixes.
min (int) - The minimum length of string to stem

Overrides: object.__init__

Strip affixes from the token and return the stem.

Parameters:

(inherited documentation)

repr(x)