The First Step Towards Suffix Stripping of Mising Words Using YASS

Abstract

The authors used yet another suffix stripper (YASS) to find out the base words or stems for one of the languages of northeast India called Mising Language. There are over 5, 00,000 speakers in Mising Language. The Roman scripts are used for Mising Language. Mising Agom Kébang is the highest body of the Mising people and is dedicated for the development of Mising literature. The particular suffix remover may be used without in depth knowledge about the language. The authors successfully used the YASS with a F-score of around 87% for finding the stem. In the field of information retrieval, the automatic removals of suffixes are very important. As the mising language does not have a known corpus, the authors created the corpus.