ntlk python frenchStemmer

Question

I an trying to initialize FrenchStemmer :

stemmer = nltk.stem.FrenchStemmer('french')

and the error is:

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'FrenchStemmer'

Has anyone seen this error before?

Answer 1

That's because nltk.stem has no module called as FrenchStemmer .

The French stemmer available is in SnowballStemmer() and you can access it by

import nltk
stemmer=nltk.stem.SnowballStemmer('french')

or by

import nltk
stemmer=nltk.stem.snowball.FrenchStemmer()