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Peer reviewedSavoy, Jacques; Picard, Justin – Information Processing & Management, 2001
Discusses the role of search engines in Web usability and analyzes and evaluates the retrieval effectiveness of various indexing and searching strategies on a new Web text collection. Highlights include preprocessing techniques that might improve retrieval effectiveness; and hyperlinks as useful sources of evidence in improving retrieval…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Indexing, Information Retrieval, Search Strategies
Peer reviewedSavoy, Jacques – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993
Discusses suffix stripping algorithms used in information retrieval to cluster words derived from a common root under the same stem, and proposes a suffixing algorithm for French which uses grammatical categories to enhance the stemming process. An evaluation of the algorithm is discussed, and an analysis of errors is described. (17 references)…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Automatic Indexing, Error Analysis (Language), Evaluation Methods
