I'm looking for a word stemmer for French ... usual conditions of
being free and with no strings attached. We have been doing some
work here at Dublin City University on information retrieval on
large collections of text (250 Mbytes) as part of TREC. (One of)
our approaches represents documents and queries by their character
shape codes and we have found it works surprisingly well for English.
We would like to see if it works at all for French as part of TREC-6,
which will have a French language IR task.
I'll post a summary to this list, so reply to me.
Many thanks
- Alan Smeaton
- Dublin City University