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# Stemerge



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Stemerge is a collection of [stemmers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stemming) in Erlang.



## Supported languages



At the moment, the following languages are supported:



* English (Porter2 stemming algorithm)

* Finnish



Romance:



* French

* Italian

* Portuguese

* Spanish



Germanic:



* Dutch

* German



Scandinavian:



* Danish

* Norwegian

* Swedish



## Usage



Just specify the language code of the word you'd like to stem, like this:



```erlang

stemerge:stem("stemerge", "en")

```



or call the ```stem/1``` API of any available stemmer separately:



```erlang

stemerge_no:stem("havneeier")

```