By Manuel Lemos

The Porter stemmer algorithm is used to process words to remove common endings. This algorithm helps detect similar words.

The Porter stemmer algorithm is used in artificial intelligence applications that simplify the processing of words in sentences by reducing the number of words the artificial intelligence needs to recognize.

This package provides a PHP extension written in C that provides a PHP function that implements the Porter stemmer algorithm.

This way, this function can run faster than a pure PHP implementation of the same algorithm. Consequently, PHP functions that use this extension can also run faster and process text in less time.