Lucene Porter Stemmer not public

java, lucene, porter-stemmer

Solution

1) If you want to use PorterStemmer as part of Lucene token analysis process, use PorterStemFilter

Sample code

 class MyAnalyzer extends Analyzer {
  public final TokenStream tokenStream(String fieldName, Reader reader) {
    return new PorterStemFilter(new LowerCaseTokenizer(reader));
  }
 }

2) If you want to use PorterStemmer just for any other application, here is the sourcecode by author himself: PorterStemmer in Java

Problem

How to use the Porter Stemmber class in Lucene 3.6.2? Here is what I have: ``` import org.apache.lucene.analysis.PorterStemmer; ... PorterStemmer stemmer = new PorterStemmer(); term = stemmer.stem(term); ``` I am being told: PorterStemmer is not public in org.apache.lucene.analysis; cannot be accessed from outside package. Edit: I also read extensively about using Snowball, but it isn't encouraged. What is the right way to stem using Lucene in Java??

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