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Computational linguistics; English language — Data processing; English language — Roots; Natural language processing (Computer science)

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Study Of Stemming Algorithms, Savitha Kodimala Dec 2010

Study Of Stemming Algorithms, Savitha Kodimala

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Automated stemming is the process of reducing words to their roots. The stemmed words are typically used to overcome the mismatch problems associated with text searching.


In this thesis, we report on the various methods developed for stemming. In particular, we show the effectiveness of n-gram stemming methods on a collection of documents.