Definition of "stemmer" []

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

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• "In such a context, the term stemmer transcends sheer comic relief, into a realm of sobering relevance threatening to become terminal."
• "As you can see at right, we used a hand-cranked crusher/de-stemmer."
• "By Jonathan, at 6/09/2007 9: 06 PM is it possible to post your src code? looking at this reminds me of the rules in porter stemmer. haha I was intending to do a dutton speedword software to add into babelfish (english-dutton speedword) but sadly I couldnt find the word list around. power of zipf's law 8p thx"