stemming

Word Base/Stem Dictionary

It seems my Google-fu is failing me. Does anyone know of a freely available word base dictionary that just contains bases of words? So, for something like strawberries, it would have strawberry. But does NOT contain abbreviations or misspellings or alternate spellings (like UK versus US)? Anything quickly usable in Java would be good bu...

SQL word root matching

Hi all, I'm wondering whether major SQL engines out there (MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL) have the ability to understand that 2 words are related because they share the same root. We know it's easy to match "networking" when searching for "network" because the latter is a substring of the former. But do SQL engines have functions that can mat...

Index Stemming to process text in c sharp or ruby

Given this text: "Friends are friendlier friendlies that are friendly and classify the friendly classification class. Flowery flowers flow through following the flower flows" I need to apply stemming to the text to achieve the following outcome: frequency("following") = 1 frequency("flow") = 2 freque...