stemmer-german

Extract the stem of a German inflected word form.

This package implements a stemmer for German, using the CISTEM algorithm. For a description of the algorithm and a comparison with other stemmers see:

Leonie Weißweiler, Alexander Fraser (2017). Developing a Stemmer for German Based on a Comparative Analysis of Publicly Available Stemmers. In Proceedings of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology (GSCL)