WordNet::stem - Module that find the stem of a word or the stems of a string of words, using WordNet. use WordNet::stem; my $wn = WordNet::QueryData->new(); my $stemmer = WordNet::stem->new($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.

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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 None. 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. 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. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to The Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. Note: a copy of the GNU General Public License is available on the web at <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt> and is included in this distribution as GPL.txt.