Stemming text data

The stemming procedure involves creating a suitable word with reduced letters for the words of the tokenizer.

How to do it...

1. Initialize the stemming process with a new Python file:

from nltk.stem.porter import PorterStemmer 
from nltk.stem.lancaster import LancasterStemmer 
from nltk.stem.snowball import SnowballStemmer 

2. Let's describe some words to consider, as follows:

words = ['ability', 'baby', 'college', 'playing', 'is', 'dream', 'election', 'beaches', 'image', 'group', 'happy'] 

3. Identify a group of stemmers to be used:

stemmers = ['PORTER', 'LANCASTER', &apos...