Unit Highlights

Lecture/Motivating Question:
How can we apply lexical analysis techniques used with compilers to the problem of text analysis? How well can we develop algorithms that will approximate human ability to identify the roots of words?

Computer Exercise
The stopword removal and stemming algorithms given in the text can be run on fox.cs.vt.edu.


fox@cs.vt.edu
Thu Oct 27 02:57:58 EDT 1994