Experiments with a stemming algorithm for Malay words

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 909-918

  Ahmad, Fatimah ^a   Yusoff, Mohammed ^a   Sembok, Tengku M T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DATA STRUCTURES; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PERFORMANCE;

MALAY WORDS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS; STEMMING ALGORITHM;

WORD PROCESSING;

EID: 0030378256     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199612)47:12<909::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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