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Snowball: A language for stemming algorithms

Snowball is a small string processing language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval.

And here's a sample program.

I am not sure just how exciting this language is, but it has been a while since we discussed a DSL.

By Ehud Lamm at 2004-07-16 12:50 | DSL | other blogs | 8015 reads

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Difference with icon

Is it somewhat related to Icons pattern matching and scanning capabilities or is this a completely different aproach? Just trying to understand where to clasify it.

By Nestor at Fri, 2004-07-16 21:02 | login or register to post comments

Snobol related

I think the inspiration is SNOBOL. At least that's where the language name comes from...

By Ehud Lamm at Fri, 2004-07-16 21:06 | login or register to post comments