fijnafstemming
Fijnafstemming is a term used in natural language processing to describe a fine-tuned approach to stemming—the process of reducing words to a common base form. The aim is to balance compact representation with semantic accuracy by carefully controlling how affixes are removed. This contrasts with aggressive stemming that may merge distinct words or with light stemming that preserves more forms.
Practically, fijnafstemming combines rule-based suffix stripping with language-specific resources such as dictionaries and part-of-speech information. Rules
Uses include search and information retrieval, where a finely tuned stemmer can improve precision and recall,
Evaluation typically reports precision, recall, and F1, and tracks over-stemming and under-stemming rates against a gold
See also: stemming, lemmatization, morphological analysis, natural language processing.