GERMAN(1)      User Contributed Perl Documentation      GERMAN(1)

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 <[email protected]>. 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 <[email protected]>

2/Jul/96                      perl                              1