YASS: Yet another suffix stripper

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Majumder, Prasenjit ^a   Mitra, Mandar ^a   Parui, Swapan K ^a   Kole, Gobinda ^a   Mitra, Pabitra ^b,d   Datta, Kalyankumar ^c  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Bengali; Clustering; Corpus; French; Indian languages; Stemming; String similarity

Indexed keywords

BENGALI (LANGUAGE); CORPUS; FRENCH (REGIONAL LANGUAGE); IR SYSTEMS; STRING SIMILARITY;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT; LOGIC PROGRAMMING; SIGNAL ENCODING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 35349020104     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1281485.1281489     Document Type: Article

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