Corpora: french stemmer (free for academic-user)

Thu Jul 26 14:40:30 UTC 2001

At 15:09 26/07/2001 +0200, ying ding wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I am looking for the French stemmer. Do you have any French stemmer in
>mind which could be freely available for academic user?

We should create a FAQ...

The best stemmer for French at the moment (at least among available ones) 
is Cordial Analyser developed by Synapse Develoment. It is not "free", but 
very cheap. Results are very good. Probably no need to train your own tagger.

Contact Mr. Dominique Laurent  <dlaurent at synapse-fr.com>.

Jean Véronis
http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~veronis/