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                                                                                                                                                                                     Authors
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Martin Porter
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 - Designed the snowball language.
 - Implemented the snowball to C compiler.
 - Implemented the stemming algorithms in C.
 - Wrote the documentation.

Richard Boulton
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 - Implemented Java backend of the snowball compiler.
 - Developed build system.
 - Assisted with website maintenance.


Assistance from
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Olivier Bornet - fixes to java packaging and build system.
Andreas Jung - useful bug reports on the libstemmer library.
Olly Betts - several patches, bug reports, and performance improvements.
Sebastiano Vigna and Oerd Cukalla - patches for the Java stemming algorithms.
Ralf Junker - fix a potential memory leak in sb_stemmer_new().