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    Information retrieval on Turkish texts
    (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2008-02) Can, F.; Kocberber, S.; Balcik, E.; Kaynak, C.; Ocalan, H. C.; Vursavas, O. M.
    In this study, we investigate information retrieval (IR) on Turkish texts using a large-scale test collection that contains 408,305 documents and 72 ad hoc queries. We examine the effects of several stemming options and query-document matching functions on retrieval performance. We show that a simple word truncation approach, a word truncation approach that uses language-dependent corpus statistics, and an elaborate lemmatizer-based stemmer provide similar retrieval effectiveness in Turkish IR. We investigate the effects of a range of search conditions on the retrieval performance; these include scalability issues, query and document length effects, and the use of stop-word list in indexing. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.