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

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King