Hersh WR, Greenes RA (1990). Information retrieval in medicine: state of the art. M.D. Computing; 7(5):302-311.

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....sinusoid denotes a large diameter capillary. All of these terms would be stemmed to the same root word sinus even though the distinctions in their meaning is important. Studies have shown that stemming algorithms in medical information retrieval systems can reduce the search precision dramatically (Hersh and Greenes 1990). After the preprocessing, each document is represented by a vector of all the remaining document terms that occur within the document collection. If the document collection contains n unique terms, then each document is represented as a vector of length n: t 1 , t 2 , t 3 , t n ) ....

Hersh WR, Greenes RA (1990). Information retrieval in medicine: state of the art. M.D. Computing; 7(5):302-311.

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