A Stemming Algorithm for the Farsi Language

  • Authors:
  • Kazem Taghva;Russell Beckley;Mohammad Sadeh

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Nevada, Las Vegas;University of Nevada, Las Vegas;University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  • Venue:
  • ITCC '05 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC'05) - Volume I - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2005

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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.