## org.apache.lucene.analysis.lv
Class LatvianStemmer

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.lucene.analysis.lv.LatvianStemmer

    public class LatvianStemmer

extends Object

Light stemmer for Latvian.

This is a light version of the algorithm in Karlis Kreslin's PhD thesis A stemming algorithm for Latvian with the following modifications:

- Only explicitly stems noun and adjective morphology
- Stricter length/vowel checks for the resulting stems (verb etc suffix stripping is removed)
- Removes only the primary inflectional suffixes: case and number for nouns ; case, number, gender, and definitiveness for adjectives.
- Palatalization is only handled when a declension II,V,VI noun suffix is removed.

Constructor Summary
`LatvianStemmer()`

Method Summary
`int` `stem(char[] s, int len)` Stem a latvian word.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### LatvianStemmer

    public LatvianStemmer()

Method Detail

### stem

    public int stem(char[] s,
                    int len)

  Stem a latvian word. returns the new adjusted length.