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diff --git a/sphinx/util/stemmer/porter.py b/sphinx/util/stemmer/porter.py index 52ca31e0c..c4f89eb95 100644 --- a/sphinx/util/stemmer/porter.py +++ b/sphinx/util/stemmer/porter.py @@ -1,30 +1,26 @@ -""" - sphinx.util.stemmer.porter - ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - - Porter Stemming Algorithm +"""Porter Stemming Algorithm - This is the Porter stemming algorithm, ported to Python from the - version coded up in ANSI C by the author. It may be be regarded - as canonical, in that it follows the algorithm presented in +This is the Porter stemming algorithm, ported to Python from the +version coded up in ANSI C by the author. It may be be regarded +as canonical, in that it follows the algorithm presented in - Porter, 1980, An algorithm for suffix stripping, Program, Vol. 14, - no. 3, pp 130-137, +Porter, 1980, An algorithm for suffix stripping, Program, Vol. 14, +no. 3, pp 130-137, - only differing from it at the points made --DEPARTURE-- below. +only differing from it at the points made --DEPARTURE-- below. - See also https://tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer/ +See also https://tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer/ - The algorithm as described in the paper could be exactly replicated - by adjusting the points of DEPARTURE, but this is barely necessary, - because (a) the points of DEPARTURE are definitely improvements, and - (b) no encoding of the Porter stemmer I have seen is anything like - as exact as this version, even with the points of DEPARTURE! +The algorithm as described in the paper could be exactly replicated +by adjusting the points of DEPARTURE, but this is barely necessary, +because (a) the points of DEPARTURE are definitely improvements, and +(b) no encoding of the Porter stemmer I have seen is anything like +as exact as this version, even with the points of DEPARTURE! - Release 1: January 2001 +Release 1: January 2001 - :copyright: Copyright 2001 by Vivake Gupta <v@nano.com>. - :license: Public Domain ("can be used free of charge for any purpose"). +:author: Vivake Gupta <v@nano.com>. +:license: Public Domain ("can be used free of charge for any purpose"). """ |