 readm  id readmtxt v 1322 20100306 160625 jhodgdon exp general inform this modul implement the porterstemmer algorithm version 2 to improv englishlanguag search with the drupal builtin search modul inform about the algorithm can be found at http snowbaltartarusorg algorithm english stemmerhtml stem reduc a word to its basic root or stem eg blog to blog so that variat on a word blog blogger blog blog are consid equival when search this general result in more relev result note that a few part of the porter stemmer algorithm work better for american english than british english so some british spell will not be stem correct this modul will use the pecl stem librari implement of the porter stemmer algorithm if it is instal on your server if the pecl stem librari is not avail the modul use its own php implement of the algorithm the output is the same in either case more inform about the pecl stem librari http peclphpnet packag stem instal see the instaltxt file for instal instruct test the porter stemmer modul includ test for the stem algorithm if you would like to run the test instal the simpletest modul from http drupalorg project simpletest and then navig to administ site build test each stem output test for the porter stemmer modul includ approxim 2000 individu word stem test which test the modul against a standard word list download from the site abov due to the way output is display in simpletest you may run into browser timeout or memori issu if you tri to run all 16 of the stem output test dure the same test run test are provid both for the intern algorithm and the pecl librari  