Stemming
NLP & Text
Crude chopping to word root
What is Stemming?
Removes suffixes using rules: "running" → "run", "studies" → "studi". Faster but less accurate than lemmatization.
Real-World Examples
- •Text preprocessing
- •Search systems
- •Porter stemmer
When to Use This
When speed matters more than accuracy
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