NAME

Lingua::Stem::UniNE::BG - Bulgarian stemmer

VERSION

This document describes Lingua::Stem::UniNE::BG v0.03.

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::Stem::UniNE::BG qw( stem_bg );

my $stem = stem_bg($word);

# alternate syntax
$stem = Lingua::Stem::UniNE::BG::stem($word);

DESCRIPTION

A stemmer for the Bulgarian language.

This module provides the stem and stem_bg functions, which are synonymous and can optionally be exported. They accept a single word and return a single stem.

SEE ALSO

Lingua::Stem::UniNE provides a stemming object with access to all of the implemented University of Neuchâtel stemmers including this one. It has additional features like stemming lists or array references of words.

This stemming algorithm was defined in Searching Strategies for the Bulgarian Language (PDF) by Jacques Savoy and originally implemented by him as a Perl script.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Jacques Savoy of the University of Neuchâtel authored the original stemming algorithm that was implemented in this module.

AUTHOR

Nick Patch <patch@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

© 2012–2013 Nick Patch

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.