/**
 * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 * Licensed 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
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/**
 * A stemmer for German words. The algorithm is based on the report
 * "A Fast and Simple Stemming Algorithm for German Words" by Jrg
 * Caumanns (joerg.caumanns@isst.fhg.de).
 *
 * @author    Gerhard Schwarz
 * @version   $Id$
 */