org.apache.lucene.analysis.el

Class GreekStemmer

java.lang.Object

org.apache.lucene.analysis.el.GreekStemmer

public class GreekStemmer
extends Object

A stemmer for Greek words, according to: Development of a Stemmer for the Greek Language. Georgios Ntais

NOTE: Input is expected to be casefolded for Greek (including folding of final sigma to sigma), and with diacritics removed. This can be achieved with either GreekLowerCaseFilter or ICUFoldingFilter.

WARNING: This API is experimental and might change in incompatible ways in the next release.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
GreekStemmer()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	stem(char[] s, int len) Stems a word contained in a leading portion of a char[] array.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

GreekStemmer

public GreekStemmer()

Method Detail

stem

public int stem(char[] s,
                int len)

Stems a word contained in a leading portion of a char[] array. The word is passed through a number of rules that modify its length.

Parameters:

s - A char[] array that contains the word to be stemmed.

len - The length of the char[] array.

Returns:

The new length of the stemmed word.