nltk.stem.api
# Natural Language Toolkit: Stemmer Interface # # Copyright (C) 2001-2008 NLTK Project # Author: Trevor Cohn <[email protected]> # Edward Loper <[email protected]> # Steven Bird <[email protected]> # URL: <http://nltk.org> # For license information, see LICENSE.TXT class StemmerI(object): """ A processing interface for removing morphological affixes from words. This process is known as X{stemming}. """ def stem(self, token): """ Strip affixes from the token and return the stem. @param token: The token that should be stemmed. @type token: C{str} """ raise NotImplementedError()