Re: Announce : arabic Stemmer/Analyzer for Lucene

[Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com>]

Hello and thank you.
I added this to out 'patch queue' at:
http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23784

Otis

--- Pierrick Brihaye <pi...@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have written a Lucene Analyzer for arabic. You will find it here :
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierrick.brihaye/ArabicAnalyzer.jar
> (provisional
> adress, anybody interested in hosting it ?)
> 
> This work is still in beta stage but it gives quite good results :-)
> 
> In order to make it work, you need :
> 
> 1) a 1.4+ JVM (because of the native support for regular expressions
> which
> are heavily used in the program ; I've been too lazy to use an
> external
> package)
> 
> 2) Apache Jakarta Commons-Collections :
> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/collections.html
> 
> 3) a recent Lucene distribution ;-)
> 
> All this work is based on the amazing Tim Buckwalter's Arabic
> Morphological
> Analyzer Version 1.0
>
(http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2002L49)
> originaly written in Perl and released under the GPL.
> 
> The jar contains :
> 
> a) the compiled classes
> b) the required data files (dictionaries and compatibility tables)
> c) 2 command-line test programs
> d) 3 test documents with different encodings
> e) the source code
> f) a README file that will give you a little bit more of information
> :-)
> 
> To Lucene developers : I plan to offer this work to Lucene (see the
> jar
> hierarchy... and the source file headers ;-). Any objections ?
> 
> Feedback is very welcome : there are quite a lot of unresolved
> issues, with
> the analyzer itselfs as well as with Lucene.
> 
> mE AlslAmap, cheers,
> 
> p.b.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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