Radixor/docs/benchmarks/languages/spanish.md

Spanish Stemmer Benchmarks

This page reports same-language stemming benchmarks for Spanish. Accuracy is listed first because speed without root agreement is not enough to interpret stemmer quality.

All speed values are environment-specific and were measured on the hardware and JVM listed in the benchmark overview. Speed benchmark operations process changed dictionary tokens only. Accuracy uses the complete Radixor dictionary for the language.

Radixor must not be read as simply "slower" when a narrow competitor has a lower timing row. In these tables Radixor is the quality-oriented baseline: its exact-root accuracy is typically close to 100%, while many faster rule-based, light, minimal, or possessive filters reach that speed by doing much less linguistic work and often score far lower in All exact and Changed exact. The Radixor rows in this benchmark refresh use the contracted compiled patch trie: compilation collapses uniform patch-command subtrees into accepting leaves, reducing hot lookup depth while preserving the preferred stemming result measured by the accuracy pass. The EnglishRadixorDictionaryCoverageBenchmark table shows the resulting quality/speed envelope explicitly. The same interpretation applies to this language page: speed rows must be read together with the accuracy table above them.

Dictionary Corpus

Resource	Dictionary rows	Complete quality tokens	Already-root tokens	Changed speed tokens
ES_ES	65,059	926,393	120,121	806,272

Radixor Patch Command Distribution

Radixor stores the preferred transformation for each normalized dictionary word form as a compiled patch command. This distribution shows which runtime command class is selected by the trained trie for the complete language dictionary. The total number of preferred patch commands analyzed for this language is 926,393.

Command class	Meaning	Word forms	Share
AppendCharacterCommand	Appends one character to the end of the word form.	5,367	0.579%
BackwardCompoundCommand	Applies a multi-step backward patch made from skip, delete, insert, and replace operations.	524,682	56.637%
DeleteSuffixCommand	Deletes one or more trailing characters from the word form.	240,872	26.001%
PreserveCommand	Returns the word form unchanged because it already matches the preferred root.	130,089	14.043%
ReplaceLastCharacterCommand	Replaces the final character of the word form.	25,383	2.740%

Accuracy

Accuracy is computed from one deterministic JMH measurement iteration without warmup. The benchmark may execute the full dictionary pass more than once inside that single timed iteration; percentages divide matching counters by evaluated counters from the same iteration.

Stemmer	All exact	Changed exact	Root preserved	Note
Radixor	97.459%	97.544%	96.891%	Full Radixor dictionary patch-command stemmer.
Lucene SpanishMinimalStemFilter	17.284%	5.347%	97.403%	Minimal suffix reducer; narrow baseline, not a full stemmer.
Lucene SpanishPluralStemFilter	15.140%	5.802%	77.820%	Plural-focused suffix reducer; narrow baseline.
Lucene SpanishLightStemFilter	9.577%	7.088%	26.279%	Light suffix stemmer; intentionally narrower than a dictionary-derived stemmer.
Lucene SnowballFilter	4.889%	4.287%	8.932%	Lucene TokenFilter integration path around the Snowball algorithm.
Official Snowball direct	4.889%	4.287%	8.930%	Official Snowball generated Java stemmer; rule-based suffix algorithm.

Speed

Speed uses JMH average time, 3 warmup iterations, 5 measurement iterations, 1 fork, and 1 thread. Relative factor is computed against the single Radixor row on this language page. Values below 1.000 are faster than that Radixor baseline; values above 1.000 are slower.

Stemmer	Benchmark method	Score ms/op	Error ms	ns/token	Relative vs Radixor	Note
Radixor	spanishRadixor	64.539	3.448	80.0	1.000	Full Radixor dictionary patch-command stemmer.
Lucene SpanishMinimalStemFilter	spanishLuceneSpanishMinimalStemFilter	38.288	2.382	47.5	0.593	Minimal Spanish suffix reducer; narrow baseline.
Lucene SpanishLightStemFilter	spanishLuceneSpanishLightStemFilter	40.855	2.407	50.7	0.633	Light Spanish suffix stemmer.
Lucene SpanishPluralStemFilter	spanishLuceneSpanishPluralStemFilter	91.054	8.822	112.9	1.411	Plural-oriented Spanish suffix reducer.
Official Snowball direct	snowballDirect[SPANISH]	168.813	32.860	209.4	2.616	Official Snowball generated Java stemmer; direct API.
Lucene SnowballFilter	luceneSnowballFilter[SPANISH]	185.626	50.297	230.2	2.876	Lucene TokenFilter path around Snowball; includes TokenStream overhead.

Interpretation Notes

• Radixor is a dictionary-derived patch-command stemmer. Its quality depends on the language resource used to train the compiled trie.
• Light, minimal, plural, and possessive filters are narrow baselines. They can be fast because they intentionally perform less linguistic work.
• Lucene TokenFilter rows include TokenStream, attribute, and required normalization overhead. Direct rows measure exposed direct APIs.
• Morfologik rows are dictionary-based and can emit multiple terms for one input token. Quality rows use the first returned term when no ranking weight is available.
• Snowball rows are rule-based generated suffix stemmers; they are useful algorithmic baselines, not dictionary-root equivalence guarantees.