NAME¶

Text::German - German grundform reduction

SYNOPSYS¶

"use Text::German;"

"$stem = Text::German::reduce($word)"

DESCRIPTION¶

This is a rather incomplete implementaion of work done by Gudrun Putze-Meier. I have to confess that I never read her original paper. So all credit belongs to her, all bugs are mine. I tried to get some insight from an implementation of two students of mine. They remain anonymous because their work was the wost piece of code I ever saw. My code behaves mostly as their implementation did except it is about 75 times faster.

AUTHOR¶

Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@wait.de>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (c) 1996 Ulrich Pfeifer. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

CHANGES¶

0.5: Fixed copyright statement