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+package org.apache.lucene.analysis.en;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Minimal plural stemmer for English.
+ * <p>
+ * This stemmer implements the "S-Stemmer" from
+ * <i>How Effective Is Suffixing?</i>
+ * Donna Harman.
+ */
+public class EnglishMinimalStemmer {
+ @SuppressWarnings("fallthrough")
+ public int stem(char s[], int len) {
+ if (len < 3 || s[len-1] != 's')
+ return len;
+
+ switch(s[len-2]) {
+ case 'u':
+ case 's': return len;
+ case 'e':
+ if (len > 3 && s[len-3] == 'i' && s[len-4] != 'a' && s[len-4] != 'e') {
+ s[len - 3] = 'y';
+ return len - 2;
+ }
+ if (s[len-3] == 'i' || s[len-3] == 'a' || s[len-3] == 'o' || s[len-3] == 'e')
+ return len; /* intentional fallthrough */
+ default: return len - 1;
+ }
+ }
+}