1. About AdvaS
2. Installation Guide
3. Usage Of AdvaS
4. Class AdvancedSearch
5. Class Advas
6. Class AdvasIo
7. Class Descriptors
8. Class Entry
9. Class Ngram
10. Class Phonetics
11. Class Stemmer
 -  11.1 __init__
 -  11.2 clearStemFile
 -  11.3 loadStemFile
 -  11.4 ngramStemmer
 -  11.5 successorVariety
 -  11.6 tableLookup
12. Information Retrieval Resources
13. Documentation
 
 ngramStemmer
 
ngramStemmer (self, wordList, size, equality)

Added to advas.0.0.3, adjusted in advas-0.2.5

Uses the ngram stemming method to reduce the wordList entries.

In: wordList a word list
  size the desired ngram size (number of characters)
  equality a float value that idicates the degree of equality between the different ngrams

Out:   a word list that is reduced as much as possible

The equality is a value between 0 and 1. The higher the value, the higher the degree of equality between two terms has to be so that they can be combined. A value between 0.8 and 0.9 is recommended.