#german-stemmer
A German stemmer implementation in PHP that takes a word and reduces it to its German stem using the Porter stemmer algorithm, see:
The original code was written by Aris Buzachis (original repo). Modifications I made include:
- Switch to mb_* string functions
- Namespaces, PSR-4 autoloading and composer setup
- PHPUnit test setup to include original test set on Porter stemmer website
- Travis setup
- Semantic versioning
##Basic Usage
$word = "vergnüglich";
echo "$word => ".GermanStemmer::stem($word);Output
vergnüglich => vergnug
###Caution
Make sure to use UTF-8 as character encoding, otherwise GermanStemmer::stem() might throw an InvalidArgumentException.
//set encoding to utf-8
mb_internal_encoding("utf-8");###Examples
See examples folder.
##Requirements
- PHP >= 5.5
##Installation
The recommended way to install german-stemmer is through Composer.
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Next, update your project's composer.json file to include GermanStemmer:
{
"repositories": [ { "type": "composer", "url": "http://packages.myseosolution.de/"} ],
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"require": {
"paslandau/german-stemmer": "dev-master"
}
"config": {
"secure-http": false
}
}
Caution: You need to explicitly set "secure-http": false in order to access http://packages.myseosolution.de/ as repository.
This change is required because composer changed the default setting for secure-http to true at the end of february 2016.
After installing, you need to require Composer's autoloader:
require 'vendor/autoload.php';##Frequently searched questions
- How can I get the stem of a German word?
- Where can I find an open source German PHP stemmer?