Does Rust's tool Tantivy support Snowball stemmers like in the Postgres full-text search?

Question

I've found that it supports 17 languages, but how does Tantivy solve this problem? What stemmers does it use under the hood?

PostgreSQL uses Snowball to implement full-text search https://snowballstem.org/demo.html that supports 29 languages.

How to apply Snowball stemmers with Tantivy? Does it support Snowball?

Answer 1

What stemmers does it use under the hood?

Lift the hood to find that Tantivy currently depends on the stemmers in rust-stemmers.

[dependencies]

# ...

rust-stemmers = "1.2.0"

In turn, rust-stemmers is well documented as providing Snowball stemmers for multiple languages:

This crate implements some stemmer algorithms found in the snowball project which are compiled to rust using the rust-backend of the snowball compiler.