XSTEM: An exemplar-based stemming algorithm

05/09/2022

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by   Kirk Baker, et al.

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Stemming is the process of reducing related words to a standard form by removing affixes from them. Existing algorithms vary with respect to their complexity, configurability, handling of unknown words, and ability to avoid under- and over-stemming. This paper presents a fast, simple, configurable, high-precision, high-recall stemming algorithm that combines the simplicity and performance of word-based lookup tables with the strong generalizability of rule-based methods to avert problems with out-of-vocabulary words.