plural stemmers
: one that stems something: such as
a
: a person or device that removes the stems from an agricultural product (such as tobacco leaves or grapes)
a mechanical stemmer
b
: software that generates stem words (see stem entry 1 sense 4) from their inflected forms
The stemmer follows Porter's algorithm and works for Brazilian Portuguese by identifying the stem of words by incrementally removing their suffix/termination.—
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“Stemmer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stemmer. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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