NAME

       Text::German - German grundform reduction

SYNOPSYS

       "use Text::German;"

       "$stem = Text::German::reduce($word)"

DESCRIPTION

       This is a rather incomplete implementaion of work done by Gudrun Putze-Meier. I have to
       confess that I never read her original paper. So all credit belongs to her, all bugs are
       mine. I tried to get some insight from an implementation of two students of mine. They
       remain anonymous because their work was the wost piece of code I ever saw. My code behaves
       mostly as their implementation did except it is about 75 times faster.

AUTHOR

       Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@wait.de>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 1996 Ulrich Pfeifer. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you
       can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

CHANGES

       0.5: Fixed copyright statement