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parcel Lucy;

/** Reduce related words to a shared root.
 *
 * SnowballStemmer is an L<Analyzer|Lucy::Analysis::Analyzer> which reduces
 * related words to a root form (using the "Snowball" stemming library).  For
 * instance, "horse", "horses", and "horsing" all become "hors" -- so that a
 * search for 'horse' will also match documents containing 'horses' and
 * 'horsing'.
 */

public class Lucy::Analysis::SnowballStemmer nickname SnowStemmer
    inherits Lucy::Analysis::Analyzer {

    void *snowstemmer;
    String *language;

    inert incremented SnowballStemmer*
    new(String *language);

    /**
     * @param language A two-letter ISO code identifying a language supported
     * by Snowball.
     */
    public inert SnowballStemmer*
    init(SnowballStemmer *self, String *language);

    public incremented Inversion*
    Transform(SnowballStemmer *self, Inversion *inversion);

    public incremented Hash*
    Dump(SnowballStemmer *self);

    public incremented SnowballStemmer*
    Load(SnowballStemmer *self, Obj *dump);

    public bool
    Equals(SnowballStemmer *self, Obj *other);

    public void
    Destroy(SnowballStemmer *self);
}