.. index:: single: stemmer_protocol
.. _stemmer_protocol/0:

.. rst-class:: right

**protocol**

``stemmer_protocol``
====================

Stemmer protocol for reducing words to their stems.

| **Availability:** 
|    ``logtalk_load(stemming(loader))``

| **Author:** Paulo Moura
| **Version:** 1:0:0
| **Date:** 2026-02-05

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``


| **Dependencies:**
|   (none)


| **Remarks:**
|    (none)

| **Inherited public predicates:**
|    (none)

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Public predicates
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.. index:: stem/2
.. _stemmer_protocol/0::stem/2:

``stem/2``
^^^^^^^^^^

Stems a single word, returning its root form.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Template:**
|    ``stem(Word,Stem)``
| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``stem(+text,-text)`` - ``one``


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.. index:: stems/2
.. _stemmer_protocol/0::stems/2:

``stems/2``
^^^^^^^^^^^

Stems a list of words, returning a list of their root forms.

| **Compilation flags:**
|    ``static``

| **Template:**
|    ``stems(Words,Stems)``
| **Mode and number of proofs:**
|    ``stems(+list(text),-list(text))`` - ``one``


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Protected predicates
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(none)

Private predicates
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(none)

Operators
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(none)

.. seealso::

   :ref:`porter_stemmer(Representation) <porter_stemmer/1>`, :ref:`lovins_stemmer(Representation) <lovins_stemmer/1>`