What is "stemmer"

Stemmer \Stem"mer\, n. One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of the verbs).

n. (context computing linguistics English) Software used to produce the stem from the inflected form of words.

1. n. 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)

Stemmer may refer to:

• Stemmer, in stemming, the automated process which produces a base string in an attempt to represent related words
• Walburga Stemmer (1892 – 1928), German fruit-seller, had alleged affair with Erwin Rommel producing Gertrud Stemmer
• Willem P.C. Stemmer, repeatedly invented technologies that have led to successful companies and products

See also .