Arabic Words Stemming Approach Using Arabic Wordnet

摘要

The big growth of the Arabic internet content in the last years has raised up the need for an effectivestemming techniques for Arabic language. Arabic stemming algorithms can be ranked, according to threecategory, as root-based approach (ex. Khoja); stem-based approach (ex. Larkey); and statistical approach(ex. N-Garm). However, no stemming of this language is perfect: The existing stemmers have a lowefficiency. In this paper, we introduce a new stemming technique for Arabic words that also solve theproblem of the plural form of irregular nouns in Arabic language, which called broken plural. Theproposed stem extractor provides very accurate results in comparisons with other algorithms.Consequently the search effectiveness improved.