stem - Module that find the stem of a word or the stems of a string of words, using WordNet.
use stem; my $wn = WordNet::QueryData->new(); my $stemmer = stem->new($wn) my @stems = $stemmer->stemWord($word); my $string = $stemmer->stemString($inString, $cache);
This module uses the internal stemming algorithm of WordNet to stem words and strings of words. This module is used by the lesk measure of the WordNet::Similarity package.
Creates a new stemmer object and initilizes it with a WordNet::QueryData object.
Parameters: $wn
Returns: $stemmer
Takes a string of words as input and returns a string of stemmed words.
Parameters: $inString
Returns: $retString
Takes a word as input and returns its stems. A word may have more than one stem. All are returned.
Parameters: $word
Returns: @stems
perl(1), WordNet::Similarity(3), WordNet::QueryData(3)
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~sidd
http://wordnet.princeton.edu
http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/WordNet
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wn-similarity
Ted Pedersen, University of Minnesota Duluth tpederse at d.umn.edu Satanjeev Banerjee, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh banerjee+ at cs.cmu.edu
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To report bugs, go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wn-similarity/ or e-mail "tpederse at d.umn.edu".
Copyright (c) 2005, Ted Pedersen and Satanjeev Banerjee
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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To install WordNet::Similarity, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm WordNet::Similarity
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install WordNet::Similarity
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.