Snowball Stemmer

A Snowball Stemmer builds a stem, or root, for each word in the document contexts. The root is determined by cutting off word endings. For example, a stem of geese is goose.

The output from the Snowball Stemmer is used by other semantic processors in the document analysis chain.

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See Also
Ontology Matcher (Resource-Based)
Rules Matcher (Rule-Based)
Fast Rules Matcher (Rule-Based)
Semantic Extractor

When to Use

If you have configured the Ontology Matcher, Rules Matcher, Fast Rules Matcher or Semantic Extractor for stem matches, you must define a Snowball Stemmer before it in the document analysis pipeline.