# 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")
```