A Simple Stemmer for Inflectional Languages
Jiaul H. Paik, Swapan Kr. Parui · 2008
Stemming, a well known IR module, is used to enhance the effectiveness of text Retrieval Systems. In FIRE 2008 ad-hoc monolingual task we applied a simple corpus based technique that is based on n-gram matching on three Indian languages. In our method we group a class of words which share a common prefix of given character length and replace each of them by their common prefix. We hope to discover whether this simple method works well in Indian language context and the initial results are encouraging.