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University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The design, implementation, and effectiveness of a Farsi word stemmer

Abstract

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A stemmer for the Farsi language has been designed, implemented, and evaluated. The stemmer uses Farsi morphology to remove affixes, producing effective stems. The implementation is written in C, using strings of unicode-encoded characters to represent Farsi words. It is meant to enhance the Farsi information retrieval system currently being developed at the Information Science Research Institute at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. The effectiveness of the Farsi stemmer and stopword list on recall/precision was tested.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Science (MS)
Level thesis:degree_level
Thesis
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Computer Science
Grantor dc:publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Year
2003

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Beckley, Russell
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Kazem Tagva

Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Language dc:language
English

Identifiers

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OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2578

Chain of custody

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Last updated
2026-07-24
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citation

Beckley, Russell. The design, implementation, and effectiveness of a Farsi word stemmer. Thesis thesis, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2003. https://doi.org/10.25669/n3jx-l5zg