Source: node-porter-stemmer Section: javascript Maintainer: Debian Javascript Maintainers Uploaders: Joseph Nahmias , Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-nodejs Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-nodejs, dh-sequence-nodejs, node-vows , Standards-Version: 4.7.4 Homepage: https://github.com/jedp/porter-stemmer Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-porter-stemmer.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-porter-stemmer Package: node-porter-stemmer Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, Description: Martin Porter's stemmer for Node.js Martin Porter's stemmer wrapped in CommonJS for use in node.js. Dr Porter explains the stemmer thus: . The Porter stemming algorithm (or ‘Porter stemmer’) is a process for removing the commoner morphological and inflexional endings from words in English. Its main use is as part of a term normalisation process that is usually done when setting up Information Retrieval systems. . Node.js is an event-based server-side JavaScript engine.