Automatic Language-Specific Stemming in Information Retrieval

We employ Automorphology, an MDL-based algorithm that determines the suffixes present in a language-sample with no prior knowledge of the language in question, and describe our experiments on the usefulness of this approach for Information Retrieval, employing this stemmer in a SMARTbased IR engine.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: CLEF
• Authors: John A. Goldsmith, Derrick Higgins, Svetlana Soglasnova
• Keywords: CLEF 2000, Information Management, MDL-based Algorithm, Prior Knowledge, SMARTbased IR Engine