Julie Beth Lovins (October 19, 1945 in Washington, D.C. – January 26, 2018 in Mountain View, California) was a computational linguist who first published a stemming algorithm for word matching in 1968. The Lovins Stemmer is a single pass, context sensitive stemmer, which removes endings based on the longest-match principle. The stemmer was the first to be published and was extremely well developed considering the date of its release and has been the main influence on a large amount of the future work in the area. -Adam G., et al