Associations to the word «Stemmer»

Wiktionary

STEMMER, noun. (computing) (linguistics) Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.

Dictionary definition

STEMMER, noun. A worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves and binds the leaves together into books.
STEMMER, noun. A worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers.
STEMMER, noun. An algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem.
STEMMER, noun. A miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting charge.
STEMMER, noun. A device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or apples).

Wise words

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