NLTK - stemming

A word stem is part of a word. It is sort of a normalization idea, but linguistic.
For example, the stem of the word waiting is wait.

word stem

Given words, NLTK can find the stems.

NLTK - stemming
Start by defining some words:


words = ["game","gaming","gamed","games"]

We import the module:


from nltk.stem import PorterStemmer
from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize, word_tokenize

And stem the words in the list using:


from nltk.stem import PorterStemmer
from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize, word_tokenize

words = ["game","gaming","gamed","games"]
ps = PorterStemmer()

for word in words:
    print(ps.stem(word))

nltk word stem example

You can do word stemming for sentences too:


from nltk.stem import PorterStemmer
from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize, word_tokenize

ps = PorterStemmer()

sentence = "gaming, the gamers play games"
words = word_tokenize(sentence)

for word in words:
    print(word + ":" + ps.stem(word))