New version 1.1b, dated 31/Jan/2007. See link below.
As part of an ongoing research project in the discovery of low-frequency but important relationships in text files, (a development of chance discovery, I recently implemented the widely-used suffix stripping algorithm of Porter (1980) as a package available under the GPL.
The software can be downloaded from the link below.
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I'm very grateful to Stephen Cox for completing my original implementation concerning treatment of the letter 'y' and fixing a defect. Stephen updated the code and shared much information on timings and an interesting implementation he has done using Stratego. His changes are incorporated in this release.
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