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+package org.apache.lucene.analysis.fr;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * This algorithm is updated based on code located at:
+ * http://members.unine.ch/jacques.savoy/clef/
+ *
+ * Full copyright for that code follows:
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2005, Jacques Savoy
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+ * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
+ *
+ * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this
+ * list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary
+ * form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and
+ * the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials
+ * provided with the distribution. Neither the name of the author nor the names
+ * of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from
+ * this software without specific prior written permission.
+ *
+ * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
+ * AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+ * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+ * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
+ * LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
+ * CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
+ * SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
+ * INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+ * CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
+ * ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
+ * POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Light Stemmer for French.
+ * <p>
+ * This stemmer implements the following algorithm:
+ * <i>A Stemming procedure and stopword list for general French corpora.</i>
+ * Jacques Savoy.
+ */
+public class FrenchMinimalStemmer {
+ public int stem(char s[], int len) {
+ if (len < 6)
+ return len;
+
+ if (s[len-1] == 'x') {
+ if (s[len-3] == 'a' && s[len-2] == 'u')
+ s[len-2] = 'l';
+ return len - 1;
+ }
+
+ if (s[len-1] == 's') len--;
+ if (s[len-1] == 'r') len--;
+ if (s[len-1] == 'e') len--;
+ if (s[len-1] == 'é') len--;
+ if (s[len-1] == s[len-2]) len--;
+ return len;
+ }
+}