On 4/21/10 1:18 PM, Chris Hostetter wrote:
: Regarding stemmers, I ditched them altogether a long time ago in favor
: of a dictionary of morphologies of all known words (for any given
: language). A simple lookup of any word morphology thus produces the set,
: including the correct stem.
Strictly speaking: you haven't "ditched" stemmers altogether -- you've
ditched *algorithmic* stemmers and moved to a *dictionary* based stemmer
-- but it's still a stemmer.
(i just don't want people reading this thread to be confused about
terminology)
-Hoss
But they don't usually call 'non algorithmic' stemming 'stemming'.
Stemming usually means using a simple heuristic process. When you use
vocabulary and morphology, its usually called lemmatization rather than
stemming.
- Mark
