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English Stemmer Benchmarks

This page reports same-language stemming benchmarks for English. 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

Model ID Model version Language Dictionary rows Complete quality tokens Already-root tokens Changed tokens JMH timing tokens
us-uk-default 1.0.0 US_UK 396,939 1,004,374 793,874 210,500 210,500

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 default-model dictionary. The total number of preferred patch commands analyzed for this language is 1,004,374.

Command class Meaning Word forms Share
AppendCharacterCommand Appends one character to the end of the word form. 73 0.007%
BackwardCompoundCommand Applies a multi-step backward patch made from skip, delete, insert, and replace operations. 22,481 2.238%
DeleteSuffixCommand Deletes one or more trailing characters from the word form. 202,637 20.175%
PreserveCommand Returns the word form unchanged because it already matches the preferred root. 779,106 77.571%
ReplaceLastCharacterCommand Replaces the final character of the word form. 77 0.008%

Accuracy

Accuracy is computed from JMH auxiliary counters in the current report. The counters are deterministic for a fixed corpus and stemmer; percentages divide matching counters by evaluated counters from the same report and are not timing metrics.

Stemmer All exact Changed exact Root preserved Note
Radixor 97.478% 97.197% 97.552% Radixor dictionary-trained patch-command stemmer.
Lucene EnglishMinimalStemFilter 90.981% 65.189% 97.820% Minimal English plural reduction, not a full stemmer.
Lucene KStemFilter 80.076% 76.608% 80.996% Krovetz-style English stemming TokenFilter; broader than minimal suffix reducers.
Lucene HunspellStemFilter 80.243% 12.750% 98.139% Benchmark-only English Hunspell dictionary compared via Lucene HunspellStemFilter.
Lucene EnglishPossessiveFilter 79.032% 0.003% 99.987% Possessive-ending remover only, not a full stemmer.
Snowball English / Porter2 40.346% 46.302% 38.767% Porter2 rule-based suffix stemmer, distinct from original Porter.
Lucene PorterStemFilter 39.538% 46.201% 37.772% Lucene TokenFilter path for Porter suffix rules; not dictionary-root equivalent.
Lucene PorterStemmer direct copy 39.538% 46.201% 37.772% Direct Porter suffix-rule implementation generated under build for benchmark-only use.
OpenNLP PorterStemmer 39.538% 46.201% 37.772% Apache OpenNLP Porter suffix-rule implementation.
Snowball original Porter 39.529% 46.179% 37.766% Classic Porter rule-based suffix stemmer.
Paice/Husk Lancaster 28.055% 37.039% 25.673% Aggressive Paice/Husk rule stemmer that often produces shorter stems.

Speed

Speed uses JMH average time, 5 warmup iterations, 10 measurement iterations, 3 independent forks, 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 radixorUsUkProfiPreferredStem 14.397 0.915 68.4 1.000 Full dictionary patch-command stemmer using compiled patch commands.
Lucene EnglishPossessiveFilter luceneEnglishPossessiveFilter 15.034 0.322 71.4 1.044 Possessive-ending remover only; not a full stemmer.
Lucene EnglishMinimalStemFilter luceneEnglishMinimalStemFilter 16.352 0.244 77.7 1.136 Narrow plural reduction filter; not a full stemmer.
Lucene PorterStemmer direct copy lucenePorterStemmerCopied 16.491 0.149 78.3 1.145 Benchmark-only generated copy of Lucene package-private Porter implementation.
OpenNLP PorterStemmer opennlpPorterStemmer 16.481 0.175 78.3 1.145 Apache OpenNLP Porter implementation.
Snowball original Porter snowballOriginalPorter 30.634 1.620 145.5 2.128 Classic Porter suffix-rule stemmer; historical English baseline, not a dictionary-equivalent stemmer.
Lucene PorterStemFilter lucenePorterStemFilter 29.666 0.536 140.9 2.061 Lucene TokenFilter integration path for Porter; includes TokenStream overhead.
Lucene KStemFilter luceneKStemFilter 41.485 0.509 197.1 2.882 Krovetz-style English TokenFilter; broader than minimal suffix filters.
Lucene HunspellStemFilter luceneHunspellStemFilter 74.399 1.223 353.4 5.168 Benchmark-only English Hunspell comparison using the benchmark Hunspell corpus.
Snowball English / Porter2 snowballEnglishPorter2 43.117 1.983 204.8 2.995 Porter2 suffix-rule stemmer, distinct from original Porter.
Paice/Husk Lancaster paiceHuskLancaster 137.952 2.443 655.4 9.582 Aggressive rule-based English stemmer.

Interpretation Notes

  • Radixor is a dictionary-trained patch-command stemmer. Its learned transformations can generalize beyond the word forms listed in the training resource.
  • 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.

Stemming Quality

Runtime performance and linguistic grouping quality are independent dimensions. This section evaluates language US_UK using the complete validated stemming-quality result matrix. Every distinct surface form is one evaluated item and can belong to several dictionary groups. Two forms are a positive pair when their group-membership sets intersect and a negative pair when those sets are disjoint. A pair shared through several groups is counted once. Exact equality with a predetermined lemma is not required.

ALL_WORDS includes every valid group and its original forms. LOWERCASE_GROUPS_ONLY excludes an entire group when any Unicode code point is uppercase or titlecase; retained words are not lowercased or otherwise rewritten. This isolates case-handling effects without changing retained inputs. Download the complete machine-readable result snapshot.

Evaluation Scope and Key Findings

The default model is us-uk-default, loaded from classpath resource org/egothor/stemmer/models/us-uk-default/stemmer.gz. The following findings compare only deterministic PRIMARY_OUTPUT rows over identical included groups; candidate policies are reported separately as capability analyses.

  • ALL_WORDS: Radixor ranks first by balanced accuracy at 0.965537 among 11 deterministic stemmers. The runner-up is ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER COPIED at 0.954796, a difference of 0.010741. This rank does not imply leadership in throughput or every secondary metric.
  • LOWERCASE_GROUPS_ONLY: Radixor ranks first by balanced accuracy at 0.966202 among 11 deterministic stemmers. The runner-up is ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER COPIED at 0.955064, a difference of 0.011139. This rank does not imply leadership in throughput or every secondary metric.

ALL_WORDS

This mode contains 15 result rows, 11 evaluated stemmers, and 3 output policies. Applied-row and form counts are shown per row because adapters share the language corpus but policy rows remain independently auditable. PRIMARY_OUTPUT and ALL_CANDIDATES rankings are ordered by unrounded balanced accuracy, followed by MCC, F1, over-stemming rate, over-stemming count, under-stemming rate, and stemmer. ANY_CANDIDATE has no single rank metric and is listed alphabetically. Balanced accuracy is a navigation metric, not a universally authoritative quality score.

PRIMARY_OUTPUT ranking

Rank Stemmer Balanced accuracy Over-stemming (OI) Under-stemming (UI)
1 Radixor 0.965537 <0.000001% 6.892502%
2 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER COPIED 0.954796 0.000207% 9.040545%
3 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER FILTER 0.954796 0.000207% 9.040545%
4 ENGLISH OPENNLP PORTER 0.954796 0.000207% 9.040545%
5 ENGLISH SNOWBALL PORTER2 0.954732 0.000212% 9.053310%
6 ENGLISH SNOWBALL ORIGINAL PORTER 0.954659 0.000206% 9.067990%
7 ENGLISH PAICE HUSK LANCASTER 0.952535 0.000960% 9.492110%
8 ENGLISH LUCENE KSTEM FILTER 0.878645 0.000110% 24.270875%
9 ENGLISH LUCENE MINIMAL FILTER 0.718958 0.000001% 56.208454%
10 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER 0.573139 0.000012% 85.372182%
11 ENGLISH LUCENE POSSESSIVE FILTER 0.500011 <0.000001% 99.997766%
Classification metrics
Rank Stemmer Output policy Precision Recall Specificity Balanced accuracy Pairwise accuracy Error rate
1 Radixor PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.999990 0.931075 1.000000 0.965537 1.000000 0.000000
2 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER COPIED PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.440121 0.909595 0.999998 0.954796 0.999998 0.000002
3 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.440121 0.909595 0.999998 0.954796 0.999998 0.000002
4 ENGLISH OPENNLP PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.440121 0.909595 0.999998 0.954796 0.999998 0.000002
5 ENGLISH SNOWBALL PORTER2 PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.434309 0.909467 0.999998 0.954732 0.999998 0.000002
6 ENGLISH SNOWBALL ORIGINAL PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.441440 0.909320 0.999998 0.954659 0.999998 0.000002
7 ENGLISH PAICE HUSK LANCASTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.144284 0.905079 0.999990 0.952535 0.999990 0.000010
8 ENGLISH LUCENE KSTEM FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.551014 0.757291 0.999999 0.878645 0.999998 0.000002
9 ENGLISH LUCENE MINIMAL FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.989894 0.437915 1.000000 0.718958 0.999999 0.000001
10 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.681277 0.146278 1.000000 0.573139 0.999998 0.000002
11 ENGLISH LUCENE POSSESSIVE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.148936 0.000022 1.000000 0.500011 0.999998 0.000002
Pair-relation metrics
Rank Stemmer Output policy F0.5 F1 F2 Jaccard Fowlkes–Mallows MCC
1 Radixor PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.985403 0.964303 0.944087 0.931066 0.964917 0.964917
2 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER COPIED PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.490783 0.593208 0.749662 0.421675 0.632717 0.632716
3 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.490783 0.593208 0.749662 0.421675 0.632717 0.632716
4 ENGLISH OPENNLP PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.490783 0.593208 0.749662 0.421675 0.632717 0.632716
5 ENGLISH SNOWBALL PORTER2 PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.484986 0.587880 0.746192 0.416310 0.628482 0.628481
6 ENGLISH SNOWBALL ORIGINAL PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.492079 0.594348 0.750277 0.422827 0.633570 0.633569
7 ENGLISH PAICE HUSK LANCASTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.173443 0.248891 0.440518 0.142133 0.361370 0.361368
8 ENGLISH LUCENE KSTEM FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.582762 0.637891 0.704541 0.468312 0.645971 0.645970
9 ENGLISH LUCENE MINIMAL FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.790591 0.607210 0.492883 0.435966 0.658399 0.658399
10 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.393465 0.240844 0.173533 0.136909 0.315683 0.315683
11 ENGLISH LUCENE POSSESSIVE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.000112 0.000045 0.000028 0.000022 0.001824 0.001824
Raw pair counts
Rank Stemmer Output policy TP FP FN TN Over error / possible Under error / possible
1 Radixor PRIMARY_OUTPUT 291757 3 21598 175199424127 3 / 175199424130 21598 / 313355
2 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER COPIED PRIMARY_OUTPUT 285026 362583 28329 175199061547 362583 / 175199424130 28329 / 313355
3 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 285026 362583 28329 175199061547 362583 / 175199424130 28329 / 313355
4 ENGLISH OPENNLP PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 285026 362583 28329 175199061547 362583 / 175199424130 28329 / 313355
5 ENGLISH SNOWBALL PORTER2 PRIMARY_OUTPUT 284986 371197 28369 175199052933 371197 / 175199424130 28369 / 313355
6 ENGLISH SNOWBALL ORIGINAL PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 284940 360538 28415 175199063592 360538 / 175199424130 28415 / 313355
7 ENGLISH PAICE HUSK LANCASTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 283611 1682034 29744 175197742096 1682034 / 175199424130 29744 / 313355
8 ENGLISH LUCENE KSTEM FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 237301 193361 76054 175199230769 193361 / 175199424130 76054 / 313355
9 ENGLISH LUCENE MINIMAL FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 137223 1401 176132 175199422729 1401 / 175199424130 176132 / 313355
10 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 45837 21444 267518 175199402686 21444 / 175199424130 267518 / 313355
11 ENGLISH LUCENE POSSESSIVE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 7 40 313348 175199424090 40 / 175199424130 313348 / 313355

ANY_CANDIDATE oracle bounds

These results are measured, not missing. ANY_CANDIDATE answers two separate optimistic questions for each pair: a gold-related pair avoids under-stemming when the candidate sets intersect, while a gold-negative pair avoids over-stemming when some non-colliding candidate selection exists. The oracle may choose a different candidate for the same word in different pairs. Consequently, these decisions do not form one globally realizable predicted relation or one TP/FP/FN/TN confusion matrix. Balanced accuracy, F-scores, Jaccard, Fowlkes–Mallows, and MCC are therefore mathematically not applicable, rather than unknown.

Stemmer Optimistic over-stemming (OI) Optimistic under-stemming (UI)
Radixor 0.000000% 0.004787%
HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER 0.000012% 83.719424%
Oracle-bound pair counts
Stemmer Unavoidable over errors / gold-negative pairs Unrepairable under errors / gold-related pairs
Radixor 0 / 175199424130 15 / 313355
HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER 20367 / 175199424130 262339 / 313355

ALL_CANDIDATES ranking

Rank Stemmer Balanced accuracy Over-stemming (OI) Under-stemming (UI)
1 Radixor 0.999976 <0.000001% 0.004787%
2 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER 0.581403 0.000022% 83.719424%
Classification metrics
Rank Stemmer Output policy Precision Recall Specificity Balanced accuracy Pairwise accuracy Error rate
1 Radixor ALL_CANDIDATES 0.999825 0.999952 1.000000 0.999976 1.000000 0.000000
2 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER ALL_CANDIDATES 0.568132 0.162806 1.000000 0.581403 0.999998 0.000002
Pair-relation metrics
Rank Stemmer Output policy F0.5 F1 F2 Jaccard Fowlkes–Mallows MCC
1 Radixor ALL_CANDIDATES 0.999850 0.999888 0.999927 0.999777 0.999888 0.999888
2 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER ALL_CANDIDATES 0.379279 0.253086 0.189902 0.144876 0.304130 0.304130
Raw pair counts
Rank Stemmer Output policy TP FP FN TN Over error / possible Under error / possible
1 Radixor ALL_CANDIDATES 313340 55 15 175199424075 55 / 175199424130 15 / 313355
2 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER ALL_CANDIDATES 51016 38780 262339 175199385350 38780 / 175199424130 262339 / 313355

Multi-output analysis

Alternative candidates are capability analyses, not replacements for the deterministic comparison.

Stemmer Under pairs repaired Best-case over pairs avoided All-candidate collisions added Multi-candidate forms Multi-candidate share Maximum candidates Total candidate assignments
Radixor 21583 3 52 13718 2.317441% 1355 607918
HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER 5179 1077 17336 5736 0.969007% 4 597698

LOWERCASE_GROUPS_ONLY

This mode contains 15 result rows, 11 evaluated stemmers, and 3 output policies. Applied-row and form counts are shown per row because adapters share the language corpus but policy rows remain independently auditable. PRIMARY_OUTPUT and ALL_CANDIDATES rankings are ordered by unrounded balanced accuracy, followed by MCC, F1, over-stemming rate, over-stemming count, under-stemming rate, and stemmer. ANY_CANDIDATE has no single rank metric and is listed alphabetically. Balanced accuracy is a navigation metric, not a universally authoritative quality score.

PRIMARY_OUTPUT ranking

Rank Stemmer Balanced accuracy Over-stemming (OI) Under-stemming (UI)
1 Radixor 0.966202 <0.000001% 6.759543%
2 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER COPIED 0.955064 0.000222% 8.987032%
3 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER FILTER 0.955064 0.000222% 8.987032%
4 ENGLISH OPENNLP PORTER 0.955064 0.000222% 8.987032%
5 ENGLISH SNOWBALL PORTER2 0.955040 0.000228% 8.991849%
6 ENGLISH SNOWBALL ORIGINAL PORTER 0.954926 0.000221% 9.014651%
7 ENGLISH PAICE HUSK LANCASTER 0.952850 0.001032% 9.428933%
8 ENGLISH LUCENE KSTEM FILTER 0.881028 0.000120% 23.794246%
9 ENGLISH LUCENE MINIMAL FILTER 0.719875 0.000001% 56.025075%
10 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER 0.573484 0.000012% 85.303261%
11 ENGLISH LUCENE POSSESSIVE FILTER 0.500008 <0.000001% 99.998394%
Classification metrics
Rank Stemmer Output policy Precision Recall Specificity Balanced accuracy Pairwise accuracy Error rate
1 Radixor PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.999990 0.932405 1.000000 0.966202 1.000000 0.000000
2 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER COPIED PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.440920 0.910130 0.999998 0.955064 0.999998 0.000002
3 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.440920 0.910130 0.999998 0.955064 0.999998 0.000002
4 ENGLISH OPENNLP PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.440920 0.910130 0.999998 0.955064 0.999998 0.000002
5 ENGLISH SNOWBALL PORTER2 PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.435153 0.910082 0.999998 0.955040 0.999998 0.000002
6 ENGLISH SNOWBALL ORIGINAL PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.442235 0.909853 0.999998 0.954926 0.999998 0.000002
7 ENGLISH PAICE HUSK LANCASTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.144700 0.905711 0.999990 0.952850 0.999990 0.000010
8 ENGLISH LUCENE KSTEM FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.551013 0.762058 0.999999 0.881028 0.999998 0.000002
9 ENGLISH LUCENE MINIMAL FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.989965 0.439749 1.000000 0.719875 0.999999 0.000001
10 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.700136 0.146967 1.000000 0.573484 0.999998 0.000002
11 ENGLISH LUCENE POSSESSIVE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.121951 0.000016 1.000000 0.500008 0.999998 0.000002
Pair-relation metrics
Rank Stemmer Output policy F0.5 F1 F2 Jaccard Fowlkes–Mallows MCC
1 Radixor PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.985700 0.965015 0.945181 0.932396 0.965606 0.965606
2 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER COPIED PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.491609 0.594049 0.750417 0.422524 0.633478 0.633477
3 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.491609 0.594049 0.750417 0.422524 0.633478 0.633477
4 ENGLISH OPENNLP PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.491609 0.594049 0.750417 0.422524 0.633478 0.633477
5 ENGLISH SNOWBALL PORTER2 PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.485863 0.588782 0.747021 0.417215 0.629305 0.629304
6 ENGLISH SNOWBALL ORIGINAL PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.492900 0.595181 0.751027 0.423671 0.634326 0.634325
7 ENGLISH PAICE HUSK LANCASTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.173928 0.249533 0.441413 0.142553 0.362017 0.362015
8 ENGLISH LUCENE KSTEM FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.583322 0.639575 0.707836 0.470129 0.648000 0.647999
9 ENGLISH LUCENE MINIMAL FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.791820 0.608984 0.494744 0.437798 0.659800 0.659800
10 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.399444 0.242939 0.174549 0.138264 0.320776 0.320775
11 ENGLISH LUCENE POSSESSIVE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 0.000080 0.000032 0.000020 0.000016 0.001399 0.001399
Raw pair counts
Rank Stemmer Output policy TP FP FN TN Over error / possible Under error / possible
1 Radixor PRIMARY_OUTPUT 290334 3 21048 161561989635 3 / 161561989638 21048 / 311382
2 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER COPIED PRIMARY_OUTPUT 283398 359344 27984 161561630294 359344 / 161561989638 27984 / 311382
3 ENGLISH LUCENE PORTER FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 283398 359344 27984 161561630294 359344 / 161561989638 27984 / 311382
4 ENGLISH OPENNLP PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 283398 359344 27984 161561630294 359344 / 161561989638 27984 / 311382
5 ENGLISH SNOWBALL PORTER2 PRIMARY_OUTPUT 283383 367843 27999 161561621795 367843 / 161561989638 27999 / 311382
6 ENGLISH SNOWBALL ORIGINAL PORTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 283312 357325 28070 161561632313 357325 / 161561989638 28070 / 311382
7 ENGLISH PAICE HUSK LANCASTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 282022 1666990 29360 161560322648 1666990 / 161561989638 29360 / 311382
8 ENGLISH LUCENE KSTEM FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 237291 193354 74091 161561796284 193354 / 161561989638 74091 / 311382
9 ENGLISH LUCENE MINIMAL FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 136930 1388 174452 161561988250 1388 / 161561989638 174452 / 311382
10 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 45763 19600 265619 161561970038 19600 / 161561989638 265619 / 311382
11 ENGLISH LUCENE POSSESSIVE FILTER PRIMARY_OUTPUT 5 36 311377 161561989602 36 / 161561989638 311377 / 311382

ANY_CANDIDATE oracle bounds

These results are measured, not missing. ANY_CANDIDATE answers two separate optimistic questions for each pair: a gold-related pair avoids under-stemming when the candidate sets intersect, while a gold-negative pair avoids over-stemming when some non-colliding candidate selection exists. The oracle may choose a different candidate for the same word in different pairs. Consequently, these decisions do not form one globally realizable predicted relation or one TP/FP/FN/TN confusion matrix. Balanced accuracy, F-scores, Jaccard, Fowlkes–Mallows, and MCC are therefore mathematically not applicable, rather than unknown.

Stemmer Optimistic over-stemming (OI) Optimistic under-stemming (UI)
Radixor 0.000000% 0.000000%
HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER 0.000011% 83.640994%
Oracle-bound pair counts
Stemmer Unavoidable over errors / gold-negative pairs Unrepairable under errors / gold-related pairs
Radixor 0 / 161561989638 0 / 311382
HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER 18564 / 161561989638 260443 / 311382

ALL_CANDIDATES ranking

Rank Stemmer Balanced accuracy Over-stemming (OI) Under-stemming (UI)
1 Radixor 1.000000 <0.000001% 0.000000%
2 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER 0.581795 0.000023% 83.640994%
Classification metrics
Rank Stemmer Output policy Precision Recall Specificity Balanced accuracy Pairwise accuracy Error rate
1 Radixor ALL_CANDIDATES 0.999952 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 0.000000
2 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER ALL_CANDIDATES 0.581828 0.163590 1.000000 0.581795 0.999998 0.000002
Pair-relation metrics
Rank Stemmer Output policy F0.5 F1 F2 Jaccard Fowlkes–Mallows MCC
1 Radixor ALL_CANDIDATES 0.999961 0.999976 0.999990 0.999952 0.999976 0.999976
2 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER ALL_CANDIDATES 0.384979 0.255377 0.191058 0.146379 0.308515 0.308514
Raw pair counts
Rank Stemmer Output policy TP FP FN TN Over error / possible Under error / possible
1 Radixor ALL_CANDIDATES 311382 15 0 161561989623 15 / 161561989638 0 / 311382
2 HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER ALL_CANDIDATES 50939 36611 260443 161561953027 36611 / 161561989638 260443 / 311382

Multi-output analysis

Alternative candidates are capability analyses, not replacements for the deterministic comparison.

Stemmer Under pairs repaired Best-case over pairs avoided All-candidate collisions added Multi-candidate forms Multi-candidate share Maximum candidates Total candidate assignments
Radixor 21048 3 12 13357 2.349760% 1355 584042
HUNSPELL ENGLISH LUCENE FILTER 5176 1036 17011 5685 1.000104% 4 574142

Output Policies and Metric Definitions

Each distinct surface form is one item and may belong to several gold groups. Two forms are gold-related when their membership sets intersect; a relation shared by several groups is counted once. PRIMARY_OUTPUT uses one deterministic stem per form. ANY_CANDIDATE is an optimistic oracle-assisted pairwise upper bound: a gold-related pair succeeds when candidates intersect, while a gold-negative pair succeeds when a non-colliding selection exists. Candidate choices may differ between pairs, so this is not deterministic runtime behaviour and does not define one confusion matrix. ALL_CANDIDATES activates every returned candidate; forms are related when candidate sets intersect.

For PRIMARY_OUTPUT and ALL_CANDIDATES, TP = underPossiblePairs - underErrorPairs, FN = underErrorPairs, FP = overErrorPairs, and TN = overPossiblePairs - overErrorPairs. ANY_CANDIDATE publishes only its separate oracle-assisted under/over bounds; confusion-derived metrics are mathematically inapplicable and are not presented in its language-page section. Their machine-readable CSV fields remain empty. Undefined metric denominators in otherwise applicable policies are rendered as n/a.

  • Under-stemming rate (Paice UI): FN / (TP + FN), the false-negative rate over gold-related pairs.
  • Over-stemming rate (Paice OI): FP / (TN + FP), the false-positive rate over gold-negative pairs.
  • Pairwise precision: TP / (TP + FP), the fraction of predicted conflations that are gold-standard positive pairs.
  • Pairwise recall: TP / (TP + FN), the fraction of gold-standard positive pairs successfully connected.
  • Pairwise specificity: TN / (TN + FP), the fraction of gold-negative pairs correctly separated.
  • Balanced accuracy: (recall + specificity) / 2. It gives equal weight to positive and negative pair classes and is less dominated by the large true-negative class than ordinary accuracy. It does not replace the raw errors or other metrics.
  • Pairwise F-beta: ((1 + betaSquared) * TP) / (((1 + betaSquared) * TP) + (betaSquared * FN) + FP). F0.5 emphasizes precision and penalizes over-stemming more; F1 weights precision and recall equally; F2 emphasizes recall and penalizes under-stemming more.
  • MCC: (TP * TN - FP * FN) / sqrt((TP + FP) * (TP + FN) * (TN + FP) * (TN + FN)). It uses all confusion counts and remains useful under class imbalance, except when its denominator is degenerate.
  • Jaccard index: TP / (TP + FP + FN).
  • Fowlkes–Mallows index: sqrt(precision * recall).
  • Pairwise accuracy: (TP + TN) / (TP + TN + FP + FN). It can be dominated by true-negative cross-group pairs.
  • Pairwise error rate: (FP + FN) / (TP + TN + FP + FN).

Standard ARI, homogeneity, completeness, V-measure, and NMI are not calculated: their usual contingency-table definitions require an exclusive gold partition, while this gold standard is an overlapping cover.

Provenance

  • Authoritative source: docs/benchmarks/data/stemming-quality.csv
  • Source SHA-256: d34f325da320a2e040b54d8d8b5c216d70448f08cfb8659a423e99882aa1afb5
  • Evaluation command: ./gradlew stemmingQuality --no-daemon
  • Dictionary language: US_UK
  • Processing modes: ALL_WORDS, LOWERCASE_GROUPS_ONLY
  • Stemmer versions and transitive artifacts: resolved by the repository's JMH Gradle configuration and gradle.lockfile
  • Model ID, version, and SHA-256: recorded in every CSV row
  • Run date, core source state, JDK, operating system, and hardware: recorded on the benchmark environment page
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