[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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