NAME

       Lingua::Stem::Fr - Perl French Stemming

SYNOPSIS

           use Lingua::Stem::Fr;

           my $stems = Lingua::Stem::Fr::stem({ -words => $word_list_reference,
                                                -locale => 'fr',
                                                -exceptions => $exceptions_hash,
                                             });

           my $stem = Lingua::Stem::Fr::stem_word( $word );

DESCRIPTION

       This module use the a modified version of the Porter Stemming Algorithm to return a
       stemmed words.

       The algorithm is implemented as described in:

       http://snowball.tartarus.org/french/stemmer.html

       with some improvement.

       The code is carefully crafted to work in conjunction with the Lingua::Stem module by
       Benjamin Franz.  This french version is based too, on the work of Aldo Calpini (Italian
       Version)

METHODS

       stem({ -words => \@words, -locale => 'fr', -exceptions => \%exceptions }); Stems a list of
       passed words. Returns an anonymous list reference to the stemmed words.
           Example:

               my $stemmed_words = Lingua::Stem::Fr::stem({ -words => \@words,
                                                            -locale => 'fr',
                                                            -exceptions => \%exceptions,
                                                         });

       stem_word( $word );
           Stems a single word and returns the stem directly.

           Example:

               my $stem = Lingua::Stem::Fr::stem_word( $word );

       stem_caching({ -level => 0|1|2 });
           Sets the level of stem caching.

           '0' means 'no caching'. This is the default level.

           '1' means 'cache per run'. This caches stemming results during a single
               call to 'stem'.

           '2' means 'cache indefinitely'. This caches stemming results until
               either the process exits or the 'clear_stem_cache' method is called.

       clear_stem_cache;
           Clears the cache of stemmed words

HISTORY

       0.01    Original version; created by h2xs 1.23 with options

                 -ACX
                       -n
                       Lingua::Stem::Fr

       0.02    Minor change in documentation and disable of limitation to perl 5.8.3+

SEE ALSO

       You can see the French stemming algorithm from Mr Porter here :

       http://snowball.tartarus.org/french/stemmer.html

       Another French stemming tool in Perl (French page) :

       http://www.univ-nancy2.fr/pers/namer/Telecharger_Flemm.html

AUTHOR

       Sébastien Darribere-Pleyt, <sebastien.darribere@lefute.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright (C) 2003 by Aldo Calpini <dada@perl.it>

       Copyright (C) 2004 by Sébastien Darribere-Pleyt <sebastien.darribere@lefute.com>

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of
       Perl 5 you may have available.