mediacloud/hausastemmer

Hausa language stemmer (Bimba et al., 2015) Hausa language stemmer ====================== .. image:: travis-ci.org :target: travis-ci.org .. image:: coveralls.io :target: coveralls.io Hausa language stemmer reference implementation by Bimba et al., 2015. Uses Hausa affix-rules and reference lookup to stem words in Hausa language. Paper: `Bimba, A., Idris, N., Khamis, N. and Noor, N.F.M. (2015) ‘Stemming Hausa text: Using affix-stripping rules and reference look-up’, Language Resources and Evaluation, 50(3), pp. 687–703. doi: 10.1007/s10579-015-9311-x. `_ Based on modifications to the implementation of the Porter's Stemming Algorithm by Vivake Gupta (2001). Copyright (C) 2013, `Bimba Andrew Thomas `_, Department of Artificial Intelligence, FSKTM Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Adapted as a Python module by `Linas Valiukas `_. Usage ----- .. code-block:: python import hausastemmer for term in 'Nijeriya kasa ce a nahiyar Afirka ta yamma.'.split(): print('%s => %s' % (term, hausastemmer.stem(term))) License ------- Copyright (C) 2013 Bimba Andrew Thomas, 2016 Linas Valiukas 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 3 of the License, or any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details .