The stemmer was the first to be published and was extremely well developed considering the date of its release, having been the main influence on a large amount of the future work in the area.
[6] She received the inaugural Bloch Fellowship in 1970 from the Linguistic Society of America to attend graduate school.
[7] Lovins obtained her Master of Arts in 1970 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 from the University of Chicago, studying linguistics.
[8] A revision of her thesis on loanwords and the phonological structure of Japanese was published in 1975 by the Indiana University Linguistics Club.
[9] Following Lovins' PhD, she spent a year working as a linguist-at-large at a University of Tokyo language research institute and as an English conversation teacher.
At Bell Labs, Lovins worked with Osamu Fujimura, a Japanese linguist who is credited as a pioneer in speech sciences.
[11] Lovins also worked as a software engineer at various companies in Silicon Valley and served as a consultant for computational linguistics throughout the 1990s.
"[12] Lovins published an article about her work on developing a stemming algorithm through the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT in 1968.
[1] Compared to other stemmers, Lovins' algorithm is fast and equipped to handle irregular plural words like person and people.