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1 <!-- 2 3 @license Apache-2.0 4 5 Copyright (c) 2019 The Stdlib Authors. 6 7 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 8 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 9 You may obtain a copy of the License at 10 11 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 12 13 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 14 distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 15 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 16 See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 17 limitations under the License. 18 19 --> 20 21 # porterStemmer 22 23 > Extract the stem of a given word. 24 25 <section class="intro"> 26 27 </section> 28 29 <!-- /.intro --> 30 31 <section class="usage"> 32 33 ## Usage 34 35 ```javascript 36 var porterStemmer = require( '@stdlib/nlp/porter-stemmer' ); 37 ``` 38 39 #### porterStemmer( word ) 40 41 Extracts the stem of a given word using the Porter stemming algorithm. 42 43 ```javascript 44 var out = porterStemmer( 'worldwide' ); 45 // returns 'worldwid' 46 47 out = porterStemmer( 'fighting' ); 48 // returns 'fight' 49 ``` 50 51 </section> 52 53 <!-- /.usage --> 54 55 * * * 56 57 <section class="references"> 58 59 ## References 60 61 - Porter, Michael F. 1980. "An algorithm for suffix stripping." _Program_ 13 (3): 130–37. doi:[10.1108/eb046814][@porter:1980]. 62 63 </section> 64 65 <!-- /.references --> 66 67 <section class="examples"> 68 69 ## Examples 70 71 <!-- eslint no-undef: "error" --> 72 73 ```javascript 74 var porterStemmer = require( '@stdlib/nlp/porter-stemmer' ); 75 76 var out = porterStemmer( 'walking' ); 77 // returns 'walk' 78 79 out = porterStemmer( 'walked' ); 80 // returns 'walk' 81 82 out = porterStemmer( 'walks' ); 83 // returns 'walk' 84 85 out = porterStemmer( '' ); 86 // returns '' 87 ``` 88 89 </section> 90 91 <!-- /.examples --> 92 93 <section class="links"> 94 95 [@porter:1980]: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046814 96 97 </section> 98 99 <!-- /.links -->