Snowball is a small string processing language designed for creating stemming algorithms for use in Information Retrieval. This package allows to use it as a part of Spark ML Pipeline API.

Link against this library using SBT:

libraryDependencies += "master" %% "spark-stemming" % "0.1.2"

Using Maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>master</groupId>
    <artifactId>spark-stemming_2.10</artifactId>
    <version>0.1.2</version>
</dependency>

Or include it when starting the Spark shell:

$ bin/spark-shell --packages master:spark-stemming_2.10:0.1.2

Currently implemented algorithms:

• English
• English (Porter)
• Romance stemmers:
  • French
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Romanian
• Germanic stemmers:
  • German
  • Dutch
• Scandinavian stemmers:
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian (Bokmål)
  • Danish
• Russian
• Finnish
• Greek

More details are on the Snowball stemming algorithms page.

Stemmer Transformer can be used directly or as a part of ML Pipeline. In particular, it is nicely combined with Tokenizer.

import org.apache.spark.mllib.feature.Stemmer

val data = sqlContext
  .createDataFrame(Seq(("мама", 1), ("мыла", 2), ("раму", 3)))
  .toDF("word", "id")

val stemmed = new Stemmer()
  .setInputCol("word")
  .setOutputCol("stemmed")
  .setLanguage("Russian")
  .transform(data)

stemmed.show