Finite state morphology and information retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Kimmo Koskenniemi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki, FIN-00014, Finland. e-mail: kimmo.koskenniemi@helsinki.fi

  • Venue:
  • Natural Language Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

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.