Finite-state morphology and information retrieval

Kimmo Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki)

A source of potential systematic errors in information retrieval is identified and discussed. These errors occur when base-form reduction is applied with a (necessarily) finite dictionary. Formal methods for avoiding this error source are presented, along with some practical complexities met in its implementation.


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