Previous research on stemming has shown both positive and negative effects on retrieval performance. This paper describes an experiment in which several linguistic and non-linguis...
For our fourth participation in the CLEF evaluation campaigns, our first objective was to propose an effective and general stopword list and a light stemming procedure for the Port...
: This paper presents a new and extensible method for information retrieval and content analysis in natural languages (NL). The proposed method is stem-based; stems are extracted b...
This paper describes the experiments of our team for CLEF 2001, which includes both official and post-submission runs. We took part in the monolingual task, for Dutch, German, and...
Although it has been shown that in test collection based studies, stemming improves retrieval effectiveness in an information retrieval system, morphological variations of queries ...