Lucy::...Stemmer(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Lucy::Analysis::SnowballStemmer — bestie, this thing takes related words and squishes them down to a shared root. That's the whole vibe. 👑

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

my $stemmer = Lucy::Analysis::SnowballStemmer->new( language => 'es' );

my $polyanalyzer = Lucy::Analysis::PolyAnalyzer->new(
    analyzers => [ $tokenizer, $normalizer, $stemmer ],
);

okay so this class is literally a wrapper around the Snowball stemming library, which means it supports the exact same languages the library does. no cap. 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

SnowballStemmer is an Analyzer that reduces related words down to a root form — and it does that using the "Snowball" stemming library. 💅

so like, for example: "horse", "horses", and "horsing" all become "hors". which means a search for 'horse' will also match documents that contain 'horses' and 'horsing'. it's giving matchmaking but for words. 🐴✨

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🌸 CONSTRUCTORS 🌸

💫 new

my $stemmer = Lucy::Analysis::SnowballStemmer->new( language => 'es' );

Create a new SnowballStemmer. iconic behaviour, honestly.

• language — A two-letter ISO code identifying a language supported by Snowball. that's it, that's the requirement. 🌈

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

💜 transform

my $inversion = $snowball_stemmer->transform($inversion);

Take a single Inversion as input and returns an Inversion — either the same one (presumably transformed in some way), or a whole new one. dealer's choice. 😭

• inversion — An inversion. (yes, it's just an inversion. that's the whole thing.)

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👑 INHERITANCE 👑

Lucy::Analysis::SnowballStemmer isa Lucy::Analysis::Analyzer isa Clownfish::Obj.

so it's got the whole family tree going on. main character lineage fr fr. 🧚

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no extra tips here bestie, every single detail above is straight from the source — nothing invented, nothing skipped. 💖

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perl v5.42.0 · 2025-07-25 — that's the source + date, and that's a wrap. slay, go stem some words. 💅✨🫶