Alex Young wrote:
> Tim Fletcher wrote:
>> Actually released a while ago, but hey.
>>
>>     http://rubyforge.org/projects/text/
>>
>>     gem install text
>>
>> Soundex, Metaphone, Double Metaphone, Levenshtein, and Figlet
>> algorithms all under the same roof. Any suggestions for anything to add?
> 
> Porter stemming is the only standout that I can think of which might be
> useful in addition...  Google says there's one here:
> 
> http://www.tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer/ruby.txt
> 
> It's public domain code, according to
> http://www.tartarus.org/martin/PorterStemmer/.
> 
There is also a Ruby interface to WordNet, although I'm not sure how
current it is.