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		raldi on June 24, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Wink-lemmatizer From the Exercises section: > The stemming for ponies and pony might seem strange. What's that all about?

djur on June 24, 2018 [–]

The stem for 'ponies' in the earlier figure was 'poni'. That means that 'pony' has to be stemmed as 'poni' in order to correctly retrieve 'pony' when searching for 'ponies' and vice versa.

raldi on June 24, 2018 | [–]

The next question was,

Does it have a deleterious effect on retrieval? Why or why not?

Any thoughts?

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