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by AznHisoka 3703 days ago
A porter stemmer has disadvantages too as it would combine 'training' and 'trains' (freight).
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Retra 3703 days ago
Maybe you just need something that trains your porter stemmer to avoid such mistakes.
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Domenic_S 3703 days ago
guys, I just had a great machine-learning startup idea...
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tedmiston 3702 days ago
Because of this ambiguity, they could easily configure the stemmer to only de-pluralize instead.
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