Julie Beth Lovins
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Julie Beth Lovins is a computational linguist
who wrote the first stemming
algorithm for word matching. Lovins obtained her Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Chicago.
Computational linguistics
Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective....
who wrote the first stemming
Stemming
In linguistic morphology and information retrieval, stemming is the process for reducing inflected words to their stem, base or root form—generally a written word form. The stem need not be identical to the morphological root of the word; it is usually sufficient that related words map to the same...
algorithm for word matching. Lovins obtained her Ph.D. in 1973 from the University of Chicago.