Or should that read "Nerd It Up With Porter"?

I've just spent the past little while playing around with the Porter Stemming Algorithm, and I must say I'm quite impressed with it. For those not in the know:

The Porter Stemming Algorithm is a process for removing the commoner morphological and inflexional endings from words in English. Its main use is as part of a term normalisation process...

Basically what it does is break down english words to their base stems, by removing suffixes and other wacky inflections.

I hear you asking, why would one want to normalise words down to their root? Well, thats simple. If we take into account that: Its main use is as part of a term normalisation process that is usually done when setting up Information Retrieval systems., then we can deduce that I plan on implementing Porter's Stemming Algorithm into an information management application that is currently under development. Those of you in the know, know what I'm talking about ; )