... (word-basedindexing). Orthogonal to this is the question ofsensitivity to segment order. That is, should ourmatch mechanism treat each string as an unor-ganised multiset of terms (the bag-of-words ... a con-sistent gain in performance is evident with simplesegmentation, the degree of which is significantlyhigher than for JUMAN. The addition of lexi-cal normalisation enhances this effect ... that high -performance TR is achievablewith naive methods, and moreso that such meth-ods outperform more intricate, expensive meth-ods. That is, the dumber the retrieval mechanism,the better. Below,...