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snowballstem / snowball

Snowball compiler and stemming algorithms
https://snowballstem.org/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Arabic Stemmer #86

Closed maimayeg closed 5 years ago

maimayeg commented 6 years ago

I installed the Stemmer and tried to use it with Arabic, but that's what I got

raise KeyError("Stemming algorithm '%s' not found" % lang)

KeyError: "Stemming algorithm 'arabic' not found"

Am I missing some dependencies, if so could you please could you please clarify what do I need to make this stemming work?

ojwb commented 6 years ago

Are you using the pure-python generated stemmers from this repo, or PyStemmer (which wraps the generated C stemmers)? Both contain the same error message you quote...

I can't see why this wouldn't work with the code here, and the CI is successfully testing Arabic stemming with Python.

PyStemmer currently defaults to using a rather old snapshot of the C stemmers from before the Arabic stemmer was added.

ojwb commented 5 years ago

No response from submitter in 2.5 months so closing.