Stemming Algorithms: A Comparative Study and their Analysis
Deepika Sharma · International Journal of Applied Information Systems · 2012
Stemming is an approach used to reduce a word to its stem or root form and is used widely in information retrieval tasks to increase the recall rate and give us most relevant results.There are number of ways to perform stemming ranging from manual to automatic methods, from language specific to language independent each having its own advantage over the other.This paper represents a comparative study of various available stemming alternatives widely used to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of information retrieval.