lancaster-stemmer

Lancaster stemming algorithm.

Install

This package is ESM only: Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be imported instead of required.

npm:

npm install lancaster-stemmer

API

This package exports the following identifiers: lancasterStemmer. There is no default export.

import {lancasterStemmer} from 'lancaster-stemmer'

lancasterStemmer('considerations') // => 'consid'
lancasterStemmer('detestable') // => 'detest'
lancasterStemmer('vileness') // => 'vil'
lancasterStemmer('giggling') // => 'giggl'
lancasterStemmer('anxious') // => 'anxy'

// Case insensitive
lancasterStemmer('analytic') === lancasterStemmer('AnAlYtIc') // => true

CLI

Usage: lancaster-stemmer [options] <words...>

Lancaster stemming algorithm

Options:

  -h, --help           output usage information
  -v, --version        output version number

Usage:

# output stems
$ lancaster-stemmer considerations
consid

# output stems from stdin
$ echo "detestable vileness" | lancaster-stemmer
detest vil

Related

• stemmer — Porter Stemmer algorithm
• double-metaphone — Double Metaphone implementation
• soundex-code — Fast Soundex implementation
• dice-coefficient — Sørensen–Dice coefficient
• levenshtein-edit-distance — Levenshtein edit distance
• syllable — Syllable count in an English word

License

MIT © Titus Wormer