Information Retrieval in Indian Languages: A Case Study of Plural Resolution in Telugu Language

Abstract

The paper deals with developing stemming algorithms that could be applied to develop a search and retrieval system for digital documents in Telugu - a language belonging to the South-central branch of the Dravidian languages. A set of stemming algorithms is developed to index and search for documents in the Telugu language. The algorithms developed demonstrate successfully that stemming algorithms for Indian languages can be developed for increasing the search efficiency in Indian languages.