Comparative Analysis of Urdu Based Stemming Techniques

Abstract

Stemming reduces many variant forms of a word into its base, stem or root, which is necessary for many different language processing application including Urdu. Urdu is a morphologically rich and resourceful language. Multilingual Urdu words are very challenging to process due to complexity of morphology. The Research of Urdu stemming has an age of a decade. The present work introduces a research on Urdu stemmers with better performance as compare to the existing Urdu stemmer.