Stemming: Porter Vs. Snowball Vs. Lancaster

Learn how different popular Stemmers work and how Stemming differs from Lemmatization

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Introduction

A common application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) is Information Retrieval (IR). The IR system deals with obtaining related resources that are relevant to the search query from a large collection of those resources. Suppose we want to retrieve the resources for the word ‘connect’. For grammatical reasons, this same word will take on different …

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