Package 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	Description
GreekStemmer()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	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 Details

GreekStemmer

public GreekStemmer()

Method Details

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.