Stemming is one of the most common data pre-processing operations we do in almost all Natural Language Processing (NLP) projects. If you're new to this space, it is possible that you don't exactly know what this is even though you have come across this word. You might also be confused between stemming and lemmatization, which are two similar operations. In this post, we'll see what exactly is stemming, with a few examples here and there. I hope I'll be able to explain this process in simple words for you. Stemming To put simply, stemming is the process of removing a part of a word, or reducing a word to its stem or root. This might not necessarily mean we're reducing a word