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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]
stemmer
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)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Stemmer \Stem"mer\, n.
One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the
verbs).
[1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Stemmer \Stem"mer\, n.
One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the
verbs).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
stemmer
n 1: a worker who strips the stems from moistened tobacco leaves
and binds the leaves together into books [syn: stripper,
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: 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
apples)
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
stemmer
Dutch n.
1 (l en tuner): someone who tunes a musical instrument
2 (l en voter): someone who is eligible to vote in an election
n.
(lb en computing linguistics) Software used to produce the stem from
the inflected form of words.
Norwegian Nynorsk n.
(inflection of nn stemme indefinite p)
Norwegian Nynorsk vb.
(inflection of nn stemme pres)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
stemmer
n.
(lb en computing linguistics) Software used to produce the stem from
the inflected form of words.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
stemmer
Dutch n.
1 (l en tuner): someone who tunes a musical instrument
2 (l en voter): someone who is eligible to vote in an election
n.
(lb en computing linguistics) Software used to produce the stem from
the inflected form of words.
Norwegian Nynorsk n.
(inflection of nn stemme indefinite p)
Norwegian Nynorsk vb.
(inflection of nn stemme pres)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
stemmer
Dutch n.
1 (l en tuner): someone who tunes a musical instrument
2 (l en voter): someone who is eligible to vote in an election
n.
(lb en computing linguistics) Software used to produce the stem from
the inflected form of words.
Norwegian Nynorsk n.
(inflection of nn stemme indefinite p)
Norwegian Nynorsk vb.
(inflection of nn stemme pres)
From Nederlands-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:nld-fra ]stemmer /stɛmər/ accordeurFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]/ˈstɛmɝ/
除梗机; 导火线; 炮棍