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stemming: a standalone construct

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stemming1 CONSTRUCTStemmingPORTER · INFORMATION RETRIEVAL

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Information retrieval

reducing words to a common stem by stripping suffixes so that variant forms of a word match the same index term.

In information retrieval, stemming refers to reducing words to a common stem by stripping suffixes so that variant forms of a word match the same index term. This meaning comes from Porter (1980) in Program.[1]

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historical trauma1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructindex5 fields · 11 citationsjingle · one word, five constructsinformation4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

  1. Porter, M. F. (1980). An algorithm for suffix stripping. Program, 14(3), 130-137. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb046814

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