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Pirkola, Ari – Journal of Documentation, 2001
Presents a morphological classification of languages from the information retrieval (IR) perspective. Discusses differences in inflection, derivation, and compounding; index of synthesis and index of fusion; cross-language retrieval research; the need for semantic and syntactic typologies; and the effects of morphology and stemming in IR.…
Descriptors: Classification, Information Retrieval, Language Typology, Morphology (Languages)