Method for evaluation of stemming algorithms based on error counting

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 632-649

  Paice, Chris D ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ERROR ANALYSIS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

ERROR COUNTING; LOVINS STEMMER; PAICE/HUSK STEMMER; PORTER STEMMER; STEMMING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0030216658     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199608)47:8<632::AID-ASI8>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Review

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