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Peer reviewedGay, L. S.; Croft, W. B. – Information Processing and Management, 1990
Discusses the interpretation of nominal compounds in the context of natural language processing for information retrieval. Knowledge-intensive algorithms that can successfully interpret compounds found in technical documents are described, and experiments are reported that indicate these algorithms may be unnecessary for improving retrieval…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computer Software, Information Retrieval, Morphology (Languages)
