Abstract
This paper describes a method for automatically segmenting words into their stems and affixes. The process uses certain statistical properties of a corpus (successor and predecessor letter variety counts) to indicate where words should be divided. Consequently, this process is less reliant on human intervention than are other methods for automated stemming. The segmentation system is used to construct stem dictionaries for document classification. Information retrieval experiments are then performed using documents and queries so classified. Results show not only that this method is capable of high quality word segmentation, but also that its use in information retrieval produces results that are at least as good as those obtained using the more traditional stemming processes.
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