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Diaz, Irene; Morato, Jorge; Llorens, Juan – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Presents a new stemming algorithm based on tree structures that improves relevance in information retrieval by conflation, grouping similar words into a single term. Highlights include the normalization process used in automatic thesaurus construction; theoretical aspects; the normalization algorithm; and experiments with English and Spanish. (LRW)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Information Retrieval, Relevance (Information Retrieval), Spanish