\FinderIndexerStemmerFr

French stemmer class for Smart Search indexer.

First contributed by Eric Sanou (bobotche@hotmail.fr)
This class is inspired in Alexis Ulrich's French stemmer code (http://alx2002.free.fr)

Synopsis

class FinderIndexerStemmerFr extends FinderIndexerStemmer {

• // members
• private  $_stemRules;
• // Inherited members from FinderIndexerStemmer
• public  $cache;
• // methods
• public string stem()
• protected static array getStemRules()
• private static integer _getFirstRule()
• private static boolean _check()
• private static string _getStem()
• // Inherited methods from FinderIndexerStemmer
• public static FinderIndexerStemmer getInstance()
• public abstract string stem()
}


Hierarchy

Extends

• FinderIndexerStemmer

Members

private

• $_stemRules — array
  Stemming rules.

public

• $cache — array
  An internal cache of stemmed tokens.

Methods

private

• _check() — Check the acceptability of a stem for French language
• _getFirstRule() — Returns the number of the first rule from the rule number that can be applied to the given reversed input.
• _getStem() — Paice/Husk stemmer which returns a stem for the given $input

protected

• getStemRules() — French stemmer rules variables.

public

• stem() — Method to stem a token and return the root.

Inherited from FinderIndexerStemmer

public

• getInstance() — Method to get a stemmer, creating it if necessary.
• stem() — Method to stem a token and return the root.