Punjabi Language Stemmer for nouns and proper names
Vishal Gupta, Gurpreet Singh Lehal · 2011
This paper concentrates on Punjabi language noun and proper name stemming. The purpose of stemming is to obtain the stem or radix of those words which are not found in dictionary. If stemmed word is present in dictionary, then that is a genuine word, otherwise it may be proper name or some invalid word. In Punjabi language stemming for nouns and proper names, an attempt is made to obtain stem or radix of a Punjabi word and then stem or radix is checked against Punjabi noun and proper name dictionary. An in depth analysis of Punjabi news corpus was made and various possible noun suffixes were identified like ੀ ਆਂ īāṃ, ਿੀਆ ਂ iāṃ, ੀ ਆ ਂ ūāṃ, ੀ ੀ ਂ āṃ, ੀ ਏ īē etc. and the various rules for noun and proper name stemming have been generated. Punjabi language stemmer for nouns and proper names is applied for Punjabi Text Summarization. The efficiency of Punjabi language noun and Proper name stemmer is 87.37%. 1