/*
* Copyright 2009 Keith Stevens
*
* This file is part of the S-Space package and is covered under the terms and
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package edu.ucla.sspace.text;
import org.tartarus.snowball.ext.italianStemmer;
/**
* A wrapper for the italian <a href="http://snowball.tartarus.org/">Snowball
* Stemmer</a>. Details for this specific stemmer can be found at <a
* href="http://snowball.tartarus.org/algorithms/italian/stemmer.html">here</a>.
*
* @author Keith Stevens.
*/
public class ItalianStemmer implements Stemmer{
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
*/
public String stem(String token) {
italianStemmer stemmer = new italianStemmer();
stemmer.setCurrent(token);
stemmer.stem();
return stemmer.getCurrent();
}
}