stemmer

/ˈstɛmər/

Definitions

1. noun

A device or software that removes inflectional endings from words and returns their stem, or a person who removes the top of a plant.

“The natural language processing library included a stemmer to reduce words to their base form.”

Synonyms

  • classifier
  • inflection remover
  • parser

Antonyms

  • inflector
  • suffixer