Authors ======= Martin Porter ------------- - Designed the snowball language. - Implemented the snowball to C compiler. - Implemented the stemming algorithms in C. - Wrote the documentation. Richard Boulton --------------- - Implemented Java backend of the snowball compiler. - Developed build system. - Assisted with website maintenance. Assistance from --------------- Olivier Bornet - fixes to java packaging and build system. Andreas Jung - useful bug reports on the libstemmer library. Olly Betts - several patches, bug reports, and performance improvements. Sebastiano Vigna and Oerd Cukalla - patches for the Java stemming algorithms. Ralf Junker - fix a potential memory leak in sb_stemmer_new().