Hungarian and Czech Stemming using YASS.
Prasenjit Majumder, Mandar Mitra, Dipasree Pal · CLEF (Working Notes) · 2007
This is the second year in a row we are participating in CLEF. Our aim is to test the performance of a statistical stemmer on various languages. Last year, we tried the stemmer on French; this year, we opted for Hungarian, Bulgarian and Czech. We were unable to complete the Bulgarian task, but submitted official runs for the adhoc monolingual Hungarian and Czech tasks. We find that, for both languages, the performance of the statistical stemmer is comparable to that of an available rule-based stemmer.