For background - stemming is used so that words like meddle, meddled, meddling and meddles are all turned into meddl in the index and can all match each other.
Not always useful though. I remember one situation where users were searching for Improvised Explosive Devices and the stemmer had turned all IEDs into just I.
Interesting. I didn't realize that stemming would just lop off the part of the word that varies. I had expected it to normalize on the root word. The meddle example makes sense. I'm trying to figure out what other words apple shares a root with, other than apples. I feel like stemming would make apple and apply share the same stem of appl.
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