英:['stemə]
美:['stemə]
英:['stemə]
美:['stemə]
noun
one that stems something: such as
a person or device that removes the stems from an agricultural product (such as tobacco leaves or grapes)
a mechanical stemmer
software that generates stem words (see stem entry 1 sense 4) from their inflected forms
The stemmer follows Porter's algorithm and works for Brazilian Portuguese by identifying the stem of words by incrementally removing their suffix/termination.—Alexandre Ribeiro Afonso and Cláudio Gottschalg Duque
The first known use of stemmer was in 1817
1 The majority of the women who found their way to the military laundry room had left behind jobs as domestic servants or as stemmers in the tobacco factories.
2 The cigar maker, the lump manufacturer and the stemmer all find in this State the article just suited to their various purposes.
3 The clusters of grapes, still on their stems, are passed through a stemmer.
4 These are first crushed or, in case the stems are to be removed, are run through a combined stemmer and crusher.
5 Perhaps a quarter of the whole length of the room was prosaically filled with piled tobacco stored ready for the two floors of stemmers.
6 Raisins of the third class are sent to the stemmer and a large proportion of them then go to the seeder.
7 Piles of the brown tobacco stood beside each stemmer, bales of it were stacked, ceiling-high, at the farther end of the room, awaiting their attentions.