DocumentCode
3155184
Title
A stemming algorithm for the Farsi language
Author
Taghva, Kazem ; Beckley, Russell ; Sadeh, Mohammad
Author_Institution
Inf. Sci. Res. Inst., Nevada Univ., Las Vegas, NV, USA
Volume
1
fYear
2005
fDate
4-6 April 2005
Firstpage
158
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
information retrieval; natural languages; Farsi document collection; Farsi language; precision-recall improvement; stemming algorithm; Concatenated codes; Displays; Helium; Information retrieval; Information science; Information technology; Mood; Morphology; Natural languages;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2005. ITCC 2005. International Conference on
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2315-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ITCC.2005.40
Filename
1428454
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