Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 22:18:11 -0400 From: Bob Krovetz To: hui@mail.eecis.udel.edu Subject: comments on "Applying NLP to IR" Hi. I noticed your paper "Applying NLP to IR: Why and How". I found the paper on researchindex.com. I know it was only for a graduate course, but I thought I'd make a correction to one of the things you say. You correctly mentioned that I used a derivational morphology routine and an inflectional routine in my stemming research. But you say that I didn't try to combine them. In fact the derivational routine *includes* the inflectional one. That is, it first handles inflectional variants and then reduces any derivational variants that apply. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know! Bob