Suffix stripping based NER in Assamese for location names

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the process of identifying and classifying proper nouns in text documents into pre-defined classes such as person, location and organization. It plays an important role in Natural Language Processing applications. Although NER in Indian languages is a difficult and challenging task and suffers from scarcity of resources, such work has started to appear recently. In highly inflectional languages such as Assamese, NER requires identification of the root forms of words that occur in texts. Our work reports a suffix stripping approach to identify those roots of words which are location named entities.