million-mesfin/Amharic-language-Stemmer-and-Information-retriaval

A stemmer for the Amharic language and a simple information retrieval demo using the stemmer. This project was developed as a term project assignment for the Information Retrieval course at **HiLCoE School of Computer Science and Technology**. The project aimed to explore the functionalities of Amharic stemming and its application in an information retrieval system. ## Amharic Stemmer and Information Retrieval System This repository implements an Amharic language stemmer and a basic Information Retrieval (IR) system. **Stemmer:** The stemmer takes Amharic words as input and outputs their stems. This helps improve search accuracy in the IR system by reducing inflected words to their root forms. **Information Retrieval System:** The IR system utilizes the Amharic stemmer to process documents stored in the `Documents` folder. Users can then search for keywords within these documents. The system retrieves documents containing stemmed versions of the search keywords. **Documents Folder:** The `Documents` folder contains the text files used by the IR system. You can add your own Amharic documents to this folder for searching.