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Stemming is automated conflation (fusing or combining) usually by reducing words to a common root. Needed-->need, engineering-->engineer, but also disoriented-->oriented which might be an example of overstemming.
Stemming provides a simple method to compress the index by including only the stems of words.
Methods of Conflation:
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