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SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Single n-gram stemming
Stemming can improve retrieval accuracy, but stemmers are language-specific. Character n-gram tokenization achieves many of the benefits of stemming in a language independent way,...
James Mayfield, Paul McNamee
SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Addressing morphological variation in alphabetic languages
The selection of indexing terms for representing documents is a key decision that limits how effective subsequent retrieval can be. Often stemming algorithms are used to normaliz...
Paul McNamee, Charles K. Nicholas, James Mayfield