BanglaKit Bengali Stemmer

A stemmer is a light-weight approach to find root words, avoiding expensive morphological analysis. The BanglaKit Stemmer implements a stepwise approach to removing inflections from Bengali Words [1].

Work is in progress with the algorithm of the stemmer, the implementations may vary significantly from version to version.

Algorithms

Rafi Kamal's Stemmer

Originally Developed by Rafi Kamal. Ported to Python.:

from bengali_stemmer.rafikamal2014 import RafiStemmer
stemmer = RafiStemmer()
stemmer.stem_word('বাংলায়')

Mahmud's Stemmer

Originally Implemented by M. R. Mahmud, M. Afrin, M. A. Razzaque, E. Miller and J. Iwashige. Ported to Python [1] Under development. As of now, only verb stemming has been implemented. mahmud2014 package under banglakit.

References

[1] M. R. Mahmud, M. Afrin, M. A. Razzaque, E. Miller and J. Iwashige, "A rule based bengali stemmer," 2014 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), New Delhi, 2014, pp. 2750-2756. doi: 10.1109/ICACCI.2014.6968484