Stop Words in Persian language Stem

摘要

In modern systems of information storage and retrieval, searching methods are of special interest, since how to search and use appropriate words have direct effect on speed of retrieving, volume of space occupied in PC memory and user’s satisfaction. A group of words that are discussed by linguists are stop words, deleting of which will produce better results in indexing documents. Therefore preparing a list of stop words in each language requires knowing different criteria and methods. However, no standard stop word list has been extracted from Persian language texts up to now. This article aims at providing instructions and criteria for preparing stop word list in Persian language in order to develop information retrieval systems.