A Stemming Algorithm for the Farsi Language

Meeting name

International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

4-4-2005

Abstract

In this paper, we report on the design and implementation of a stemmer for the Farsi language. The results of our evaluation on a small Farsi document collection shows a significant improvement in precision/recall over not stemming.

Keywords

Farsi document collection; Farsi language; Information retrieval; Natural language processing (Computer science); Natural languages; Persian language; Precision-recall improvement; Stemming algorithm

Disciplines

Computer Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Theory and Algorithms

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