Greek language stemmer?

[MaghSamana]

Hello,
this isn't an issue, but a request. There is a stemming algorithm for greek language.
https://snowballstem.org/algorithms/greek/stemmer.html

Can it be added here?

[HLeithner]

@msaari you wrote in issue #21 that you may implement other languages if a snowball algorithm exists. Can I motivate you to keep the Greek stemmer a chance?

[msaari]

Yes. There’s an obscene amount of steps in it and the additional complication of using Greek alphabet, but I can look at this. Not before my vacation’s over, so at some point in August or September, depending on how much development time Relevanssi’s next version takes.

[MaghSamana]

I can be of help in anything regarding Greek language, alphabet, characters etc, - just message if there's anything needed.

[msaari]

I've started work on the Greek stemmer in the greek branch. It seems complicated, but we'll see how it turns out once I get to the actual stemming steps.

[tarasiadis]

I’m interesting for the addition of Greek language too. If your need any help on Greek alphabet let me know.

[msaari]

I'm stuck with this. The Greek alphabet is not the problem; understanding the stemmer is. If someone can help me understand the stemmer details, that'd be helpful.

[tarasiadis]

I'm trying to understand the algorithm too, but I'm not the specialist on this! If someone can help it will be very usefull to include Greek language on stemmer.

[tarasiadis]

I have found some code for greek stemmer algorithm to help you. I attach it here.
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZSAo7VZBgQQ9HSGre03ltv3ll2wuzaTlBby

[tarasiadis]

Is there any progress on this with greek language?

[msaari]

No, as I said, I'm stuck and won't be able to progress this further. Hopefully, someone else can pick this up.