Exercise 2.3

The following pairs of words are stemmed to the same form by Porter stemmer. Which pairs would you argue shouldn’t be conflated. Give your reasoning:

  1. Abandon / abandoment. This associative is good because term abandoment is clearly adjective form of verb abandon.

  2. Absorbency / absorbent. This associative looks fine.

  3. Marketing / markets. This associative looks not relevant because markets refer to place, while marketing refer to job function.

  4. University / universe. This associative clearly not relevant, because term universe has general meaning while term university refers to place.

  5. Volume / volumes. This associative looks really good.

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