Title :
Arabic stemming without a root dictionary
Author :
Taghva, Kazem ; Elkhoury, Rania ; Coombs, Jeffrey
Author_Institution :
Inf. Sci. Res. Inst., Nevada Univ., Las Vegas, NV, USA
Abstract :
We have implemented a root-extraction stemmer for Arabic which is similar to the Khoja stemmer but without a root dictionary. Our stemmer was found to perform equivalently to the Khoja stemmer as well as so-called "light" stemmers in monolingual document retrieval tasks performed on the Arabic Trec-2001 collection. A root dictionary, therefore, does not improve Arabic monolingual document retrieval.
Keywords :
dictionaries; information retrieval; natural languages; Arabic Trec-2001 collection; Arabic monolingual document retrieval; Arabic stemming; Khoja stemmer; light stemmers; root dictionary; root-extraction stemmer; Data mining; Dictionaries; Information analysis; Information retrieval; Information science; Information technology; Natural languages; Pattern matching; Performance analysis; Table lookup;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2005. ITCC 2005. International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2315-3
DOI :
10.1109/ITCC.2005.90
