/// <summary>
/// Get all possible stems for each word in the string
/// </summary>
/// <param name="question">String (question) to find its words stems</param>
/// <returns>Dictionary of each word and its stems</returns>
public Dictionary <string, List <string> > GetStemmedWords(string question)
{
//Dictionary to hold word and a list of its stemmed words.
Dictionary <string, List <string> > stemmedWords = new Dictionary <string, List <string> >();
//Create Language class object to use its stemming method
Language Stemmer = new Language();
//Temp list of strings to hold intermediate results
List <string> tempStemmedWords;
//Trimming the string
question = question.Trim();
//Removing Extra spaces
while (question.Contains(" "))
{
question = question.Replace(" ", " ");
}
//parsing the input string
List <string> input = new List <string>();
input = question.Split(' ').ToList <string>();
foreach (string word in input)
{
tempStemmedWords = Stemmer.getStems(word);
if (tempStemmedWords.Contains(word))
{
tempStemmedWords.Remove(word);
}
if (tempStemmedWords.Count > 0)
{
stemmedWords.Add(word, tempStemmedWords);
}
}
return(stemmedWords);
}
/// <summary>
/// Get all possible stems for each word in the string
/// </summary>
/// <param name="question">String (question) to find its words stems</param>
/// <returns>Dictionary of each word and its stems</returns>
public Dictionary<string, List<string>> GetStemmedWords(string question)
{
//Dictionary to hold word and a list of its stemmed words.
Dictionary<string, List<string>> stemmedWords = new Dictionary<string, List<string>>();
//Create Language class object to use its stemming method
Language Stemmer = new Language();
//Temp list of strings to hold intermediate results
List<string> tempStemmedWords;
//Trimming the string
question = question.Trim();
//Removing Extra spaces
while (question.Contains(" "))
question = question.Replace(" ", " ");
//parsing the input string
List<string> input = new List<string>();
input = question.Split(' ').ToList<string>();
foreach (string word in input)
{
tempStemmedWords = Stemmer.getStems(word);
if(tempStemmedWords.Contains(word))
{
tempStemmedWords.Remove(word);
}
if (tempStemmedWords.Count > 0)
{
stemmedWords.Add(word, tempStemmedWords);
}
}
return stemmedWords;
}
