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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2010-2021 Haifeng Li. All rights reserved.
 *
 * Smile is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * Smile is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with Smile.  If not, see .
 */

package smile.nlp.stemmer;

/**
 * A Stemmer transforms a word into its root form. The stemming is a process
 * for removing the commoner morphological and inflexional endings from words
 * (in English). Its main use is as part of a term normalisation process.
 *
 * @author Haifeng Li
 */
public interface Stemmer {
    /**
     * Transforms a word into its root form.
     * @param word the word.
     * @return the stem.
     */
    String stem(String word);
}