stemmer

property

elasticlunr.stemmer

Option name	Type	Description
str	String	The string to stem
return	String

elasticlunr.stemmer = (function(){
  var step2list = {
      "ational" : "ate",
      "tional" : "tion",
      "enci" : "ence",
      "anci" : "ance",
      "izer" : "ize",
      "bli" : "ble",
      "alli" : "al",
      "entli" : "ent",
      "eli" : "e",
      "ousli" : "ous",
      "ization" : "ize",
      "ation" : "ate",
      "ator" : "ate",
      "alism" : "al",
      "iveness" : "ive",
      "fulness" : "ful",
      "ousness" : "ous",
      "aliti" : "al",
      "iviti" : "ive",
      "biliti" : "ble",
      "logi" : "log"
    },

    step3list = {
      "icate" : "ic",
      "ative" : "",
      "alize" : "al",
      "iciti" : "ic",
      "ical" : "ic",
      "ful" : "",
      "ness" : ""
    },

    c = "[^aeiou]",          // consonant
    v = "[aeiouy]",          // vowel
    C = c + "[^aeiouy]*",    // consonant sequence
    V = v + "[aeiou]*",      // vowel sequence

    mgr0 = "^(" + C + ")?" + V + C,               // [C]VC... is m>0
    meq1 = "^(" + C + ")?" + V + C + "(" + V + ")?$",  // [C]VC[V] is m=1
    mgr1 = "^(" + C + ")?" + V + C + V + C,       // [C]VCVC... is m>1
    s_v = "^(" + C + ")?" + v;                   // vowel in stem

  var re_mgr0 = new RegExp(mgr0);
  var re_mgr1 = new RegExp(mgr1);
  var re_meq1 = new RegExp(meq1);
  var re_s_v = new RegExp(s_v);

  var re_1a = /^(.+?)(ss|i)es$/;
  var re2_1a = /^(.+?)([^s])s$/;
  var re_1b = /^(.+?)eed$/;
  var re2_1b = /^(.+?)(ed|ing)$/;
  var re_1b_2 = /.$/;
  var re2_1b_2 = /(at|bl|iz)$/;
  var re3_1b_2 = new RegExp("([^aeiouylsz])\\1$");
  var re4_1b_2 = new RegExp("^" + C + v + "[^aeiouwxy]$");

  var re_1c = /^(.+?[^aeiou])y$/;
  var re_2 = /^(.+?)(ational|tional|enci|anci|izer|bli|alli|entli|eli|ousli|ization|ation|ator|alism|iveness|fulness|ousness|aliti|iviti|biliti|logi)$/;

  var re_3 = /^(.+?)(icate|ative|alize|iciti|ical|ful|ness)$/;

  var re_4 = /^(.+?)(al|ance|ence|er|ic|able|ible|ant|ement|ment|ent|ou|ism|ate|iti|ous|ive|ize)$/;
  var re2_4 = /^(.+?)(s|t)(ion)$/;

  var re_5 = /^(.+?)e$/;
  var re_5_1 = /ll$/;
  var re3_5 = new RegExp("^" + C + v + "[^aeiouwxy]$");

  var porterStemmer = function porterStemmer(w) {
    var   stem,
      suffix,
      firstch,
      re,
      re2,
      re3,
      re4;

    if (w.length < 3) { return w; }

    firstch = w.substr(0,1);
    if (firstch == "y") {
      w = firstch.toUpperCase() + w.substr(1);
    }

    // Step 1a
    re = re_1a
    re2 = re2_1a;

    if (re.test(w)) { w = w.replace(re,"$1$2"); }
    else if (re2.test(w)) { w = w.replace(re2,"$1$2"); }

    // Step 1b
    re = re_1b;
    re2 = re2_1b;
    if (re.test(w)) {
      var fp = re.exec(w);
      re = re_mgr0;
      if (re.test(fp[1])) {
        re = re_1b_2;
        w = w.replace(re,"");
      }
    } else if (re2.test(w)) {
      var fp = re2.exec(w);
      stem = fp[1];
      re2 = re_s_v;
      if (re2.test(stem)) {
        w = stem;
        re2 = re2_1b_2;
        re3 = re3_1b_2;
        re4 = re4_1b_2;
        if (re2.test(w)) {  w = w + "e"; }
        else if (re3.test(w)) { re = re_1b_2; w = w.replace(re,""); }
        else if (re4.test(w)) { w = w + "e"; }
      }
    }

    // Step 1c - replace suffix y or Y by i if preceded by a non-vowel which is not the first letter of the word (so cry -> cri, by -> by, say -> say)
    re = re_1c;
    if (re.test(w)) {
      var fp = re.exec(w);
      stem = fp[1];
      w = stem + "i";
    }

    // Step 2
    re = re_2;
    if (re.test(w)) {
      var fp = re.exec(w);
      stem = fp[1];
      suffix = fp[2];
      re = re_mgr0;
      if (re.test(stem)) {
        w = stem + step2list[suffix];
      }
    }

    // Step 3
    re = re_3;
    if (re.test(w)) {
      var fp = re.exec(w);
      stem = fp[1];
      suffix = fp[2];
      re = re_mgr0;
      if (re.test(stem)) {
        w = stem + step3list[suffix];
      }
    }

    // Step 4
    re = re_4;
    re2 = re2_4;
    if (re.test(w)) {
      var fp = re.exec(w);
      stem = fp[1];
      re = re_mgr1;
      if (re.test(stem)) {
        w = stem;
      }
    } else if (re2.test(w)) {
      var fp = re2.exec(w);
      stem = fp[1] + fp[2];
      re2 = re_mgr1;
      if (re2.test(stem)) {
        w = stem;
      }
    }

    // Step 5
    re = re_5;
    if (re.test(w)) {
      var fp = re.exec(w);
      stem = fp[1];
      re = re_mgr1;
      re2 = re_meq1;
      re3 = re3_5;
      if (re.test(stem) || (re2.test(stem) && !(re3.test(stem)))) {
        w = stem;
      }
    }

    re = re_5_1;
    re2 = re_mgr1;
    if (re.test(w) && re2.test(w)) {
      re = re_1b_2;
      w = w.replace(re,"");
    }

    // and turn initial Y back to y

    if (firstch == "y") {
      w = firstch.toLowerCase() + w.substr(1);
    }

    return w;
  };

  return porterStemmer;
})();

elasticlunr.Pipeline.registerFunction(elasticlunr.stemmer, 'stemmer');