[Tutor] Learning natural language processing and Python? [learning about "stemming" words]
Erik Price
erikprice@mac.com
Wed, 18 Sep 2002 08:51:41 -0400
On Wednesday, September 18, 2002, at 01:52 AM, Danny Yoo wrote:
> Stemming is used to toss out most of the variation in word endings, to
> get
> at the very "stem" of a word. There's an algorithm called the "Porter
> Stemming Algorithm" that does interesting things to English words:
>
> http://www.tartarus.org/~martin/PorterStemmer/index.html
>
> It tries to remove the inflectional endings of English text, so it's
> similar to the root-word function that's in WordNet. The page above
> gives
Yes, but isn't that ending needed to make sense of the word (in most
cases)?
NLP sounds interesting.
Erik
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