Malay-language stemmer

Stemming is the removal of affixes (prefixes and suffixes) in a word in order to generate its root word. The objectives of this research were to build a software stemmer that can stem any given Malay word, and to develop a standard stemming algorithm for the Malay language. The Malay language was ch...

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Main Authors: Sankupellay, Mangalam, Valliappan, Subbu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sunway University College 2006
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Online Access:http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/29/
http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/29/1/mangalam3.pdf
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Summary:Stemming is the removal of affixes (prefixes and suffixes) in a word in order to generate its root word. The objectives of this research were to build a software stemmer that can stem any given Malay word, and to develop a standard stemming algorithm for the Malay language. The Malay language was chosen because a complete stemmer for this language is unavailable. Stemmers have a wide variety of applications, such as in information retrieval and machine translation. It is expected that when this system is fully developed, it will benefit users and customers tremendously.