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stemmed

stemmed

6.7
With words changed to their basic form by a computer so different forms match
  • adjective
  • /stɛməd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : reducido
  • In preprocessing, she converted all documents to lower case and stemmed words to reduce vocabulary size.

Examples

  • The search engine stores stemmed terms so queries match plural and tense variations.

  • Researchers found that the classifier performed better on stemmed inputs when training data was limited.

  • The data was stemmed to improve search accuracy.

  • We used a stemmed version of the words for analysis.

  • The search engine uses stemmed words to improve the accuracy of search results across different forms.

  • During the analysis, we focused on stemmed versions of the words to ensure consistency in our data.

  • By processing the text with stemmed inputs, the algorithm was able to enhance its predictive capabilities.

Compounds

9.9

A fern that grows in warm parts of the Americas

A North American wildflower with bent stems and small daisy-like flowers

A plant with a stem shaped like a round tube

A plant with many leaves on its stem

A plant with two or more stems that grow from the base

purple-stemmed aster
  • Specialized
9.0

A wildflower with purple stems and clusters of violet or blue flowers

7.9

A plant from North America with rough stems and small yellow flowers

A plant that has a thick stem compared to its height

short-stemmed
  • Specialized
3.8

With a short stem, like some plants or flowers

A plant with a stem covered in sharp spines or thorns

stout-stemmed
  • Specialized
6.5

Having a thick, strong stem that supports the plant

A plant with stems too weak to hold it upright

white-stemmed filaree
  • Specialized
9.9

A low plant from Europe that lives for one year, has white stems, and grows wild in fields

A thin strong plant stem that bends like wire

woody-stemmed
  • Specialized
5.6

A plant with a hard wooden stem that lives many years

woolly-stemmed
  • Specialized
7.7

A plant stem covered with soft hairs like wool

Surface Forms

stemmed positive

Morphology

stemmed = stem (semi-transparent) = stem + ed

Derivationally regular (past participle of the technical verb 'to stem'), but the meaning is specialized to NLP and may not be obvious from the common noun.

Etymology

Stemmed in computing uses the idea of a stem as the base of a word, like the main part of a plant's stalk, and cuts words down to that base form. So when text is stemmed, a search can treat 'run', 'runs', and 'running' as the same idea.