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Morphological and Syntactic Processing for Text Retrieval

  • Jesús Vilares
  • Miguel A. Alonso
  • Manuel Vilares
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3180)

Abstract

This article describes the application of lemmatization and shallow parsing as a linguistically-based alternative to stemming in Text Retrieval, with the aim of managing linguistic variation at both word level and phrase level. Several alternatives for selecting the index terms among the syntactic dependencies detected by the parser are evaluated. Though this article focuses on Spanish, this approach is extensible to other languages by simply adapting the grammar used by the parser.

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Noun Phrase Natural Language Processing Linguistic Variation Verbal Group Prepositional Phrase 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jesús Vilares
    • 1
  • Miguel A. Alonso
    • 1
  • Manuel Vilares
    • 2
  1. 1.Departamento de ComputaciónUniversidade da CoruñaLa CoruñaSpain
  2. 2.Escuela Superior de Ingeniería InformáticaUniversidade de VigoOrenseSpain

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