This article is about Dr. Martin F. Porter the inventor of the Porter Stemmer and the Snowball programming framework, for Martin Porter the musician, see Martin Porter (musician)

Martin Porter (musician)

Martin Porter is an artist and songwriter who was the lead vocalist in Van Gunn , 7 Days' Wonder and primarily known as a singer in K-otic and currently active in Axport.-Career:Porter grew up in Maasbree, The Netherlands Growing up with music such as the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Tom...

Dr. Martin F. Porter is the inventor of the Porter Stemmer

Stemming

In linguistic morphology and information retrieval, stemming is the process for reducing inflected words to their stem, base or root form—generally a written word form. The stem need not be identical to the morphological root of the word; it is usually sufficient that related words map to the same...

 and the Snowball

Snowball programming language

Snowball is a small string-handling programming language whose name was chosen as a tribute to the SNOBOL programming language, with which it shares the concept of string patterns delivering signals that are used to control the flow of the program....

 programming framework.

The Muscat search engine comes from research performed by Dr Porter at Cambridge University (UK)

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

, and was commercialized in 1984 by Cambridge CD Publishing; it was subsequently sold to MAID which became the Dialog Corporation

Dialog (online database)

Dialog is an online information service owned by ProQuest, who acquired it from Thomson Reuters in mid-2008.Dialog was one of the predecessors of the World Wide Web as a provider of information, though not in form. The earliest form of the Dialog system was completed in 1966 under the direction of...

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In 2000 he was awarded the Tony Kent Strix award

Tony Kent Strix award

The UKeiG Strix award is an annual award for outstanding contributions to the field of information retrieval and is presented in memory of Dr Tony Kent, a past Fellow of the Institute of Information Scientists , who died in 1997...

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He has a personal homepage at http://tartarus.org/~martin/.