.. _spkg_snowballstemmer:

snowballstemmer: Stemmer algorithms for natural language processing in Python
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Description
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This package provides 29 stemmers for 28 languages generated from Snowball algorithms.

License
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BSD-3-Clause

Upstream Contact
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https://pypi.org/project/snowballstemmer/

This is a pure Python stemming library. If PyStemmer is available, this
module uses it to accelerate.

Type
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standard


Version Information
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package-version.txt::

    2.1.0

install-requires.txt::

    snowballstemmer >=1.2.1


Equivalent System Packages
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conda:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ conda install snowballstemmer


macports:
install the following packages: py-snowballstemmer

opensuse:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ sudo zypper install python3-snowballstemmer


void:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ sudo xbps-install  python3-snowballstemmer


See https://repology.org/project/python:snowballstemmer/versions


However, these system packages will not be used for building Sage
because using Python site-packages is not supported by the Sage distribution;
see :trac:`29023`