June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
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English
Similar to rain and raining, weekend and sunday mean the same thing. The document might not contain Sunday, but if the information retrieval system can also search for synonyms, it will significantly improve the search quality. Human language deals with a lot of things, such as tense, gender, numbers. Stemming and synonyms will not only improve the search quality but also reduce the index size by removing the differences between similar words.
More examples:
Pen, Pen[s] -> Pen
Eat, Eating -> Eat
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