UX Caucus Database Tips

This week's tip is brought to you by the brilliant SRLibrarianProblems Twitter account:        What the heck is lemmatization (lemmatisation)? And why is it important to consider for sensitive (yet precise) searches? Lemmatization is a feature in many databases (we will demonstrate other examples in later blog posts) that attempts to make a relatively simple keyword search more robust (sensitive) behind the scenes. In the SRLibrarianProblems tweet above, you can see that their example shows that the Topic keyword search for aging with and without quotes produces significantly different results. So what is going on between the two versions of this simple search? According to the Web of Science help documentation : "Web of Science automatically applies lemmatization rules to search queries. Lemmatization reduces inflected forms of a word to their lexical root. With lemmatization turned on, a search term is reduced to its "lemma" and inflected forms of the word are...