weka.core.stemmers

## Interface Stemmer

- All Superinterfaces:
    RevisionHandler, java.io.Serializable
  All Known Implementing Classes:
    IteratedLovinsStemmer, LovinsStemmer, NullStemmer, SnowballStemmer

      public interface Stemmer
      extends java.io.Serializable, RevisionHandler

  Interface for all stemming algorithms.
  Version:
    $Revision: 8034 $
  Author:
    FracPete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)

- - ### Method Summary

    Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method and Description
    --- | ---
    `java.lang.String` | `stem(java.lang.String word)` Stems the given word and returns the stemmed version

    - ### Methods inherited from interface weka.core.RevisionHandler

      `getRevision`

- - ### Method Detail

    - #### stem

          java.lang.String stem(java.lang.String word)

      Stems the given word and returns the stemmed version
      Parameters:
        `word` - the unstemmed word
      Returns:
        the stemmed word