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Assem's Arabic Stemmer

This is an algorithm for Arabic stemming written on Snowball framework language. If offers light stemming and text normalization.

@article{Chelli2018,
author = "Assem Chelli",
title = "{Assem's Arabic Stemmer}",
year = "2018",
month = "11",
url = "https://figshare.com/articles/Assem_s_Arabic_Stemmer/7295690",
doi = "10.6084/m9.figshare.7295690.v1"
}

This is a sample of results:

Requirements:

• Snowball framework
• Snowball-data
• Golden-Arabic-Corpus

They are already attached as git submodules so just run:

$ git submodule update --init --recursive

Build:

$ make build

Run:

• Light Stemmer

$ make run
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• Root-Based Stemmer

$ make run_root
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Test:

We configured tests to run against snowball-data arabic sample to test speed, grouping factor and precision.

$ make test

Distributions:

• dist light stemmer to available languages:

$ make dist