EXTRACTING MOST FREQUENT CROATIAN ROOT WORDS USING DIGRAM COMPARISON AND LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS

Zvonimir Radoš, Franjo Jović, Josip Job

2005

Abstract

A method for extracting root words from Croatian language text is presented. The described method is knowledge-free and can be applied to any language. Morphological and semantic aspects of the language were used. The algorithm creates morph-semantic groups of words and extract common root for every group. For morphological grouping we use digram comparison to group words depending on their morphological similarity. Latent semantic analysis is applied to split morphological groups into semantic subgroups of words. Root words are extracted from every morpho-semantic group. When applied to Croatian language text, among hundred most frequent root words, produced by this algorithm, there were 60 grammatically correct ones and 25 FAP (for all practical purposes) correct root words.

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Radoš Z., Jović F. and Job J. (2005). EXTRACTING MOST FREQUENT CROATIAN ROOT WORDS USING DIGRAM COMPARISON AND LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS . In Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-19-8, pages 370-373. DOI: 10.5220/0002551903700373


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis05,
author={Zvonimir Radoš and Franjo Jović and Josip Job},
title={EXTRACTING MOST FREQUENT CROATIAN ROOT WORDS USING DIGRAM COMPARISON AND LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2005},
pages={370-373},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002551903700373},
isbn={972-8865-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - EXTRACTING MOST FREQUENT CROATIAN ROOT WORDS USING DIGRAM COMPARISON AND LATENT SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
SN - 972-8865-19-8
AU - Radoš Z.
AU - Jović F.
AU - Job J.
PY - 2005
SP - 370
EP - 373
DO - 10.5220/0002551903700373