The effectiveness of stemming for information retrieval in Amharic
Program: electronic library and information systems
ISSN: 0033-0337
Article publication date: 1 December 2003
Abstract
Amharic is an example of a language with a very rich morphology, which means that systems for searching Amharic text databases can be effective in operation only if full account is taken of the many word variants that may occur. This paper reports a comparison of stem‐based and root‐based searching of Amharic text with conventional, word‐based searching. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of our recently described stemming algorithm for Amharic.
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Citation
Alemayehu, N. and Willett, P. (2003), "The effectiveness of stemming for information retrieval in Amharic", Program: electronic library and information systems, Vol. 37 No. 4, pp. 254-259. https://doi.org/10.1108/00330330310500748
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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