stemmer algorithm

In natural language parsing, a stemmer algorithm is software that derives the base root of a word, or "word stem." For example, "make" is the word stem in "maker" and "making." See natural language recognition.

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Column 4 gives the average time for applying the stemmer algorithm to each HTML page C.