word-to-root-stem

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stemWordToRoot()

function stemWordToRoot(word: string): string;

Defined in: tokenize/word-to-root-stem.js:12

Stems a word using the Porter Stemmer for removing inflectional endings like "ing", "ist", "ize".

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
word	string	The word to be stemmed

Returns

string

• The stemmed word

Author

Porter, M. (1980)

Example

var rootWord = stemWordToRoot("running"); // returns "run"