Going beyond stemming: creating concept signatures of complex medical terms
Author(s)
Kurz, Thorsten
Date issued
2002
In
Knowledge-Based Systems
Vol
5-6
No
15
From page
309
To page
313
Subjects
stemming concept signatures information retrieval ALGORITHM
Abstract
We present a stemming algorithm that does not only remove the endings of words, but also cuts the remaining steins into radicals and suffixes. The output of this algorithm is used to create more precise concept signatures for indexing and classifying documents. The algorithm has been successfully tested with radical and suffix lists for medical terms. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B,V. All rights reserved.
Publication type
journal article