202511191242 Status: idea Tags: Datascience, NLP

NLP Stemming

• Stemming reduces words to their root form by removing prefixes and suffixes.
• Standardizes words, improving efficiency in NLP tasks like text classification, retrieval, and summarization.
• Example : “chocolates” → “chocolate”, “retrieval” → “retrieve”

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References

• Dit is iets wat we leren voor Datascience. dit was informatie vanuit avans 2-2 datascience 2025-11-12. en daarbij horen deze slides
• I was writing a note about NLP which mentions this.