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{{About |Snowball, the programming language developed by Martin Porter |the programming language developed at [[Bell Labs]] |SNOBOL}}

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'''Snowball''' is a small string processing [[programming language]] designed for creating [[stemming]] algorithms for use in [[information retrieval]].<ref name=Snowball-HomePage>[http://snowball.tartarus.org/ "Snowball"], Martin Porter, web page. Retrieved 2 September 2014.</ref>

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The name Snowball was chosen as a tribute to the [[SNOBOL]] programming language, with which it shares the concept of string patterns delivering signals that are used to control the flow of the program. The creator of Snowball, [[Martin Porter|Dr. Martin Porter]], "toyed with the idea of calling it 'strippergram' ", because it "effectively provides a 'suffix STRIPPER GRAMmar' ".<ref name=Snowball-HomePage/>

== External links ==

* http://snowballstem.org/ The new official site

* http://snowballstem.org/demo.html Online demo of the snowball algorithm

==References==

*P Willett. "The Porter Stemming Algorithm: Then and Now" (July 2006) ''Program''. Volume 40. Issue 3. Pages 219 et seq.

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*P Willett. "The Porter Stemming Algorithm: Then and Now" (July 2006) ''Program''. Volume 40. Issue 3. Pages 219 et seq.

== External links ==

* [http://snowballstem.org/ The new officialOfficial site]

* [http://snowballstem.org/demo.html OnlineSnowball algorithm demo of the snowball algorithm]

[[Category:Text-oriented programming languages]]