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Snowball (programming language)

Snowball is a small string processing programming language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in information retrieval.

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Snowball (programming language)

Nodes21
Edges20
Triples4
Avg. degree1.9
Density0.095238
Components1

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Important terminology

snowball language dr porter programming use program script stemming algorithms snobol compiler string designed signals used control flow martin file

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
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