Snowball (programming language)
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Snowball (programming language)
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Snowball is a small string processing programming language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in information retrieval. The name Snowball was chosen as a tribute to the SNOBOL programming language, with which it shares the concept of string patterns delivering signals that are used to control the flow of the program. The creator of Snowball, Dr. Martin Porter, "toyed with the idea of calling it 'strippergram' ", because it "effectively provides a 'suffix STRIPPER GRAMmar' ". The S
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2024-01-06T17:40:54Z
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