NAME

Text::Affixes - Basis for Prefixes and Sufixes analisys of text

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Affixes;
my $text = "Hello, world. Hello, big world.";
my $prefixes = get_prefixes($text);

# $prefixes now holds
# {
# 	3 => {
# 		'Hel' => 2,
# 		'wor' => 2,
# 	}
# }

# or

$prefixes = get_prefixes({min => 1, max => 2},$text);

# $prefixes now holds
# {
# 	1 => {
# 		'H' => 2,
# 		'w' => 2,
# 		'b' => 1,
# 	},
# 	2 => {
# 		'He' => 2,
# 		'wo' => 2,
# 		'bi' => 1,
# 	}
# }

# the use for get_sufixes is similar

DESCRIPTION

This module, still in its early stages, is meant to be used in Natural Language Processing tools that require Prefixe or Sufixe examination of text.

TO DO

* Improve the documentation

* Make it more efficient (C?)

AUTHOR

Jose Alves de Castro, <cog@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 by Jose Castro

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.