https://github.com/tebeka/snowball

Snowball stemmer for Go
https://github.com/tebeka/snowball

golang snowball stemmer

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Snowball stemmer for Go

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/tebeka/snowball
• Owner: tebeka
• License: mit
• Created: 2012-12-04T06:33:23.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-06-10T15:06:16.000Z (7 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-08-13T15:10:58.023Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: golang, snowball, stemmer
• Language: C
• Size: 560 KB
• Stars: 47
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 7
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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README

          
# [Snowball](http://snowball.tartarus.org/) Stemmer for Go

[![Go Reference](https://pkg.go.dev/badge/github.com/tebeka/snowball.svg)](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/tebeka/snowball)

[![Test](https://github.com/tebeka/snowball/workflows/Test/badge.svg)](https://github.com/tebeka/snowball/actions?query=workflow%3ATest)

## Usage

```go

package snowball_test

import (

	"fmt"

	"github.com/tebeka/snowball"

)

func Example() {

	stemmer, err := snowball.New("english")

	if err != nil {

		fmt.Println("error", err)

		return

	}

	defer stemmer.Close()

    for _, word := []string{"worked", "working", "works"} {

        fmt.Println(stemmer.Stem(word))

    }

	// Output:

	// work

	// work

	// work

}

```

This project was mostly a learning exercise for me, I don't consider it production quality.

## Installing

`go get github.com/tebeka/snowball@latest`

You will need a C compiler on your machine.

## Development

If you want to update the underlying C library, run `update-c.sh`. Make sure to run the tests after.