stemmer

Berry hull remover

A stemmer is a tool or algorithm that reduces words to their root or base form by stripping affixes: "running," "runs," and "ran" all become "run." Used primarily in search engines and text analysis to help match related word forms.

The process itself is called stemming.

A stemmer may also be a person who removes stems from fruit or tobacco leaves.

NLP

tokenization

Converting input into discrete units

text-processing · inflection · suffix · prefix · morpheme · derivation · parsing

gardening

pruning

Cutting vegetation for health

loppers · snips · deadheading · trimming · cutting · propagation · horticulture · rootstock · cuttings · grafting

algorithm

Porter

Occupational family name

  • LancasterEnglish dynasty, fifteenth century
  • indexingSystematic organization for retrieval
  • conflationMerging distinct concepts incorrectly
agriculture

thresher

Grain-stalk separation device

baler · picker · shredder · grinder · reaper · husker · tobacco · hops · mechanical · separator

Opposites
linguistic processing direction

stemmerconjugator

Changes verb forms

decliner

kitchen tool function

stemmerpeeler

Skin-removing utensil

seeder · corer · pitter · zester · huller

Phrases
Family

stemmed, stemming, unstemmed

Familiarity
Top 1,000,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Rated G