Hey,
How hard would it be to come up with these word-stem
normalizers for other
languages (i.e. did you base Esperanto off of another similar language or
did you come up with it yourself relatively easily)? Is there a good
description somewhere on how to come up with them?
That may require some linguistic abilities and some coding abilities :)
There are several stemmers floating around, with one being used by
various opensource software - snowball (
http://snowball.tartarus.org/).
It has English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch,
Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Russian, Finnish supports. Maybe there's
possibility to adapt rules from there.
Cheers,
Domas