Processing morphological variants in searches of Latin text

Processing morphological variants in searches of Latin text

A characteristic of natural-language text databases is that a user must be able to specify all of the variant forms of each query word if high recall is to be achieved. The most common type of word variants are those arising from morphology and thus most retrieval systems provide facilities for user...

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Main Authors: Mark Greengrass, Alexander M. Robertson, Robyn Schinke, Peter Willett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Borås 1996-01-01
Series:Information Research: An International Electronic Journal
Subjects:
natural language
text databases
query words
recall
word variants
morphology
retrieval systems
truncation
information retrieval
IR
stemming algorithms
stemmers
suffixes
humanities
Latin
Online Access:http://informationr.net/ir/2-1/paper10.html
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