Introduction to a new Farsi stemmer

ABSTRACT

In this poster, a new Farsi (also called Persian) stemmer which works without dictionary is introduced. Evaluation results show significant improvement in performance (precision/recall) of the Information Retrieval (IR) system using this stemmer.

REFERENCES

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.1 Content Analysis and Indexing

General Terms:
Design, Languages, Performance

Keywords:
Farsi, Persian, information retrieval, language, stemmer