A Novel Root Based Arabic Stemmer

Authors

Mohammed N. Al-Kabi, Zarqa University
Saif A. Kazakzeh, Yarmouk University
Belal M. Abu Ata, Yarmouk University
Saif A. Al-Rababah, Al-albayt University
Izzat M. Alsmadi, Boise State University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

4-2015

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2014.04.001

Abstract

Stemming algorithms are used in information retrieval systems, indexers, text mining, text classifiers etc., to extract stems or roots of different words, so that words derived from the same stem or root are grouped together. Many stemming algorithms were built in different natural languages. Khoja stemmer is one of the known and widely used Arabic stemmers. In this paper, we introduced a new light and heavy Arabic stemmer. This new stemmer is presented in this study and compared with two well-known Arabic stemmers. Results showed that accuracy of our stemmer is slightly better than the accuracy yielded by each one of those two well-known Arabic stemmers used for evaluation and comparison. Evaluation tests on our novel stemmer yield 75.03% accuracy, while the other two Arabic stemmers yield slightly lower accuracy.

Copyright Statement

This document was originally published in Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences by Elsevier. This work is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. Details regarding the use of this work can be found at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. doi:10.1016/j.jksuci.2014.04.001

Publication Information

Al-Kabi, Mohammed N.; Kazakzeh, Saif A.; Abu Ata, Belal M.; Al-Rababah, Saif A.; and Alsmadi, Izzat M.. (2015). "A Novel Root Based Arabic Stemmer". Journal of King Saud University: Computer and Information Sciences, 27(2), 94-103.