Stemmer (Carrot2, Public Java API v4.0.0 (org.carrot2:core))

All Known Implementing Classes:

SnowballStemmerAdapter
```
public interface Stemmer
```
Simple lemmatization engine transforming an inflected form of a word to its base form or some other unique token.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`CharSequence`	`stem(CharSequence word)`	Returns the base form of the provided word or `null` if the base form cannot be determined.

- Method Detail
  - stem
```
CharSequence stem(CharSequence word)
```
    Returns the base form of the provided word or null if the base form cannot be determined. In the latter case, the base form will be assumed to be the same as the original word.