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.IX Title "Lingua::PT::Stemmer 3pm"
.TH Lingua::PT::Stemmer 3pm "2016-03-26" "perl v5.22.1" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
Lingua::PT::Stemmer \- Portuguese language stemming
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\&  use Lingua::PT::Stemmer;
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\&  Lingua::PT::Stemmer::stem(\e@words);
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\&  # or
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\&  Lingua::PT::Stemmer::stem(@words);
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This module implements a Portuguese stemming algorithm proposed in the paper \fBA Stemming Algorithm for the Portuguese Language\fR by \fBMoreira, V.\fR and \fBHuyck, C.\fR
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The eight steps of stemming algorithm are listed as follows:
.IP "\(bu" 8
Plural Reduction
.IP "\(bu" 8
Feminine Reduction
.IP "\(bu" 8
Adverb Reduction
.IP "\(bu" 8
Augmentative/Diminutive Reduction
.IP "\(bu" 8
Noun Suffix Reduction
.IP "\(bu" 8
Verb Suffix Reduction
.IP "\(bu" 8
Vowel Reduction
.IP "\(bu" 8
Accents Removal
.SH "SEE ALSO"
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Lingua::GL::Stemmer
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xern <xern@cpan.org>
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This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.