Dear List,
I tried to use the SnowballStemmer function in the package "Snowball".
It works, but obviously it uses English as its default language and I
can't figure out how to change the language. SnowballStemmer takes 2
args: a character vector with the words to be stemmed and "control =
NULL":
"an object of class Weka_control, or a character vector of control
options, or NULL (default). Available options can be obtained on-line
using the Weka Option Wizard WOW, or the Weka documentation."
> WOW(SnowballStemmer)
returns
-S The name of the snowball stemmer (default 'porter').
available stemmers: danish, dutch,
english, finnish, french, german, hungarian, italian,
norwegian, porter, portuguese,
russian, spanish, swedish
Number of arguments: 1.
So I tried stuff like
> SnowballStemmer(<character vector with words in it>, "-S
german")
but the result doesn't change, the stemming language is obviously
english.
Could anyone help me out on this?
Thanks.