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Reading Leonard Richardson's paper about his Ultra Gleeper recommendation engine, I notice that he's run into the problem of stemming weblog URLs.

I managed to write a reasonable stemmer back when I was running the [[blogging ecosystem]]; if I remember, when I've got some free time I'll dig this out and improve it to do a better job matching more modern[1] URLs. It's a function that would be handy to have in an open source library.

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1. Back in 2002 and 2003, when the ecosystem was operating, people tended to use either simple MT-style archive links ("/archives/12345.html") or dated ones ("/2003/2/2.html"), whereas now it's quite popular to put your post title in the URL.

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