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Header files and development libraries for libstemmer (development files)

About snowball

Header files and development libraries for libstemmer (development files)

This project links 41 native package records across 10 recorded operating-system releases. Compare the retained versions and architectures below, then open the package for your own release.

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Alpine Linux 3.21: 4 package records; Alpine Linux 3.22: 4 package records; Alpine Linux 3.23: 4 package records; Debian 12 (Bookworm): 5 package records; Debian 13 (Trixie): 5 package records; Fedora 43: 5 package records; Fedora 44: 5 package records; openSUSE Leap 15.6: 3 package records; openSUSE Leap 16.0: 3 package records; openSUSE Tumbleweed: 3 package records. Catalog coverage diagram, not an application screenshot.snowball: recorded package coverageAlpine Linux 3.214 recordsAlpine Linux 3.224 recordsAlpine Linux 3.234 recordsDebian 12 (Bookworm)5 recordsDebian 13 (Trixie)5 recordsFedora 435 recordsFedora 445 recordsopenSUSE Leap 15.63 records
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Project identity

Project
snowball
Publisher
Not authoritatively mapped
Native package records
41
Operating systems
alpine-linux-3-21, alpine-linux-3-22, alpine-linux-3-23, debian-12, debian-13, fedora-43, fedora-44, opensuse-leap-15-6, opensuse-leap-16-0, opensuse-tumbleweed
License expression
BSD-3-Clause
Metadata completeness
70/100 (not a software quality rating)
Homepage
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Source repository
Not reported

Source-reported description

The fullest retained description is shown with its source. Distribution packaging descriptions may include downstream details.

Snowball is a small string processing language for creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval, plus a collection of stemming algorithms implemented using it. Snowball was originally designed and built by Martin Porter. Martin retired from development in 2014 and Snowball is now maintained as a community project. Martin originally chose the name Snowball as a tribute to SNOBOL, the excellent string handling language from the 1960s. It now also serves as a metaphor for how the project grows by gathering contributions over time. The Snowball compiler translates a Snowball program into source code in another language - currently Ada, ISO C, C#, Go, Java, Javascript, Object Pascal, Python and Rust are supported. What is Stemming? Stemming maps different forms of the same word to a common "stem" - for example, the English stemmer maps connection, connections, connective, connected, and connecting to connect. So a search for connected would also find documents which only have the other forms. This stem form is often a word itself, but this is not always the case as this is not a requirement for text search systems, which are the intended field of use. We also aim to conflate words with the same meaning, rather than all words with a common linguistic root (so awe and awful don't have the same stem), and over-stemming is more problematic than under-stemming so we tend not to stem in cases that are hard to resolve. If you want to always reduce words to a root form and/or get a root form which is itself a word then Snowball's stemming algorithms likely aren't the right answer.

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Packages by operating system

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Alpine Linux 3.21

  1. libstemmer

    Alpine Linux 3.21 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Snowball rule-based stemming algorithms

    aarch64x86_64v3.21
  2. libstemmer-dev

    Alpine Linux 3.21 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Header files and development libraries for libstemmer (development files)

    aarch64x86_64v3.21
  3. snowball

    Alpine Linux 3.21 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Snowball rule-based stemming algorithms

    aarch64x86_64v3.21
  4. snowball-doc

    Alpine Linux 3.21 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Snowball rule-based stemming algorithms (documentation)

    aarch64x86_64v3.21

Alpine Linux 3.22

  1. libstemmer

    Alpine Linux 3.22 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Snowball rule-based stemming algorithms

    aarch64x86_64v3.22
  2. libstemmer-dev

    Alpine Linux 3.22 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Header files and development libraries for libstemmer (development files)

    aarch64x86_64v3.22
  3. snowball

    Alpine Linux 3.22 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Snowball rule-based stemming algorithms

    aarch64x86_64v3.22
  4. snowball-doc

    Alpine Linux 3.22 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Snowball rule-based stemming algorithms (documentation)

    aarch64x86_64v3.22

Alpine Linux 3.23

  1. libstemmer

    Alpine Linux 3.23 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Snowball rule-based stemming algorithms

    aarch64x86_64v3.23
  2. libstemmer-dev

    Alpine Linux 3.23 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Header files and development libraries for libstemmer (development files)

    aarch64x86_64v3.23
  3. snowball

    Alpine Linux 3.23 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Snowball rule-based stemming algorithms

    aarch64x86_64v3.23
  4. snowball-doc

    Alpine Linux 3.23 / source snowball

    2.2.0-r0

    Snowball rule-based stemming algorithms (documentation)

    aarch64x86_64v3.23

Debian 12 (Bookworm)

  1. libstemmer0d

    Debian 12 (Bookworm) / libs / source snowball

    2.2.0-2

    Snowball stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval

    amd64arm64bookworm
  2. libstemmer-dev

    Debian 12 (Bookworm) / libdevel / source snowball

    2.2.0-2

    Snowball stemming algorithms, development kit

    amd64arm64bookworm
  3. libstemmer-tools

    Debian 12 (Bookworm) / text / source snowball

    2.2.0-2

    Simple word stemming utility using Snowball

    amd64arm64bookworm
  4. python3-snowballstemmer

    Debian 12 (Bookworm) / python / source snowball

    2.2.0-2

    Pure Python Snowball stemming library

    allbookworm
  5. python3-stemmer

    Debian 12 (Bookworm) / python / source pystemmer

    2.2.0.1-1+b1

    Python 3 bindings for libstemmer - snowball stemming algorithms

    amd64arm64bookworm

Debian 13 (Trixie)

  1. libstemmer0d

    Debian 13 (Trixie) / libs / source snowball

    2.2.0-4+b2

    Snowball stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval

    amd64arm64trixie
  2. libstemmer-dev

    Debian 13 (Trixie) / libdevel / source snowball

    2.2.0-4+b2

    Snowball stemming algorithms, development kit

    amd64arm64trixie
  3. libstemmer-tools

    Debian 13 (Trixie) / text / source snowball

    2.2.0-4+b2

    Simple word stemming utility using Snowball

    amd64arm64trixie
  4. python3-snowballstemmer

    Debian 13 (Trixie) / python / source snowball

    2.2.0-4

    Pure Python Snowball stemming library

    alltrixie
  5. python3-stemmer

    Debian 13 (Trixie) / python / source pystemmer

    2.2.0.1-2+b5

    Python 3 bindings for libstemmer - snowball stemming algorithms

    amd64arm64trixie

Fedora 43

  1. libstemmer

    Fedora 43 / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-8.fc43

    Stemming algorithms written in C

    aarch64i686x86_6443
  2. libstemmer-devel

    Fedora 43 / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-8.fc43

    Developer files for libstemmer

    aarch64i686x86_6443
  3. python3-snowballstemmer

    Fedora 43 / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-8.fc43

    Stemming algorithms written in Python 3

    noarch43
  4. snowball

    Fedora 43 / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-8.fc43

    Snowball compiler and stemming algorithms

    aarch64x86_6443
  5. snowball-java

    Fedora 43 / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-8.fc43

    Stemming algorithms written in Java

    noarch43

Fedora 44

  1. libstemmer

    Fedora 44 / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-11.fc44

    Stemming algorithms written in C

    aarch64i686x86_6444
  2. libstemmer-devel

    Fedora 44 / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-11.fc44

    Developer files for libstemmer

    aarch64i686x86_6444
  3. python3-snowballstemmer

    Fedora 44 / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-11.fc44

    Stemming algorithms written in Python 3

    noarch44
  4. snowball

    Fedora 44 / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-11.fc44

    Snowball compiler and stemming algorithms

    aarch64x86_6444
  5. snowball-java

    Fedora 44 / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-11.fc44

    Stemming algorithms written in Java

    noarch44

openSUSE Leap 15.6

  1. libstemmer1d

    openSUSE Leap 15.6 / Unspecified / source snowball

    2.2.0-150600.1.3

    Shared library for libstemmer

    aarch64ppc64les390xx86_64leap-15.6
  2. snowball

    openSUSE Leap 15.6 / Unspecified / source snowball

    2.2.0-150600.1.3

    Snowball compiler and stemming algorithms

    aarch64ppc64les390xx86_64leap-15.6
  3. snowball-devel

    openSUSE Leap 15.6 / Unspecified / source snowball

    2.2.0-150600.1.3

    Development files libstemmer

    aarch64ppc64les390xx86_64leap-15.6

openSUSE Leap 16.0

  1. libstemmer1d

    openSUSE Leap 16.0 / Unspecified / source snowball

    2.2.0-160000.2.2

    Shared library for libstemmer

    aarch64ppc64les390xx86_64leap-16.0
  2. snowball

    openSUSE Leap 16.0 / Unspecified / source snowball

    2.2.0-160000.2.2

    Snowball compiler and stemming algorithms

    aarch64ppc64les390xx86_64leap-16.0
  3. snowball-devel

    openSUSE Leap 16.0 / Unspecified / source snowball

    2.2.0-160000.2.2

    Development files libstemmer

    aarch64ppc64les390xx86_64leap-16.0

openSUSE Tumbleweed

  1. libstemmer1d

    openSUSE Tumbleweed / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-1.5

    Shared library for libstemmer

    x86_64tumbleweed
  2. snowball

    openSUSE Tumbleweed / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-1.5

    Snowball compiler and stemming algorithms

    x86_64tumbleweed
  3. snowball-devel

    openSUSE Tumbleweed / Unspecified / source snowball

    3.0.1-1.5

    Development files libstemmer

    x86_64tumbleweed

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