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stemmer
(encz) | stemmer, n: |
Stemmer
(gcide) | Stemmer \Stem"mer\, n.
One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the
verbs).
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stemmer
(wn) | stemmer
n 1: a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves
and binds the leaves together into books [syn: stripper,
stemmer, sprigger]
2: a worker who makes or applies stems for artificial flowers
3: an algorithm for removing inflectional and derivational
endings in order to reduce word forms to a common stem [syn:
stemmer, stemming algorithm]
4: a miner's tamping bar for ramming packing in over a blasting
charge
5: a device for removing stems from fruit (as from grapes or
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stemmer
(foldoc) | stemmer
stemming
A program or algorithm
which determines the morphological root of a given inflected
(or, sometimes, derived) word form -- generally a written word
form.
A stemmer for English, for example, should identify the
string "cats" (and possibly "catlike", "catty" etc.) as
based on the root "cat", and "stemmer", "stemming", "stemmed"
as based on "stem".
English stemmers are fairly trivial (with only occasional
problems, such as "dries" being the third-person singular
present form of the verb "dry", "axes" being the plural of
"ax" as well as "axis"); but stemmers become harder to design
as the morphology, orthography, and character encoding of
the target language becomes more complex. For example, an
Italian stemmer is more complex than an English one (because
of more possible verb inflections), a Russian one is more
complex (more possible noun declensions), a Hebrew one is even
more complex (a hairy writing system), and so on.
Stemmers are common elements in query systems, since a user
who runs a query on "daffodils" probably cares about documents
that contain the word "daffodil" (without the s).
(This dictionary has a rudimentary stemmer which currently
(April 1997) handles only conversion of plurals to singulars).
(1997-04-09)
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Stemmer
(gcide) | Stemmer \Stem"mer\, n.
One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the
verbs).
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Stemmery
(gcide) | Stemmery \Stem"mer*y\, n.
A large building in which tobacco is stemmed. [U. S.]
--Bartlett.
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