According to the docs for Lingua::Stem:

Lingua::Stem is a ’pure perl’ ... suite.
Lingua::Stem::Snowball is XS based

However, I seem to be having difficulty getting Stem to produce the same output as Snowball. Here is my test code:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Lingua::Stem;
use Lingua::Stem::Snowball;

chomp( my @names = <DATA> );

my $stemmer = Lingua::Stem->new( -locale => 'EN' );
$stemmer->stem_caching({ -level => 2 });
my $stems = $stemmer->stem(@names);
print "Stem => ", Dumper $stems;

@names = map lc, @names;
$stemmer = Lingua::Stem::Snowball->new( lang => 'en' );
$stemmer->stem_in_place( \@names );

print "Snowball => ", Dumper \@names;


__DATA__
John Smith Plumbing
J Smith's Plumbing
J Smith's Plumbing
Jerry Spaulding Goldsmith
J Spaulding's Gold
[download]

And here is my output (Perl 5.10 on Mac OS)

Stem => $VAR1 = [
          'john smith plumbing',
          'j smith\'s plumbing',
          'j smith\'s plumbing',
          'jerry spaulding goldsmith',
          'j spaulding\'s gold'
        ];

Snowball => $VAR1 = [
          'john smith plumb',
          'j smith\'s plumb',
          'j smith\'s plumb',
          'jerry spaulding goldsmith',
          'j spaulding\'s gold'
        ];

I would like for the first array to look like the second -- that is, why does Stem not stem the word plumbing into plub like Snowball does. I do have one hint -- when I removed the language from the Snowball constructor, it too did not stem the word plumbing into plumb. Perhaps I am missing something very trivial in my Stem constructor? (Additionally, I am looking to use Stem solely for its Perl pure solution.)

Thanks in advance for any and all suggestions, solutions or sarcasms. :)

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