Myanmar Web Pages Indexer with an Enhanced Dictionary

Abstract

With the enormous growth of the World Wide Web, Search engines or Information Retrieval (IR) play a critical role in retrieving information from the borderless Web. Although many search engines are available for the major languages, but they are not much proficient for the less computerized languages including Myanmar. A search engine which capable of searching the Web documents written in any other languages rather than in English is highly needed, especially when more and more Web sites are coming up with localized content in multiple languages. This paper reports an ongoing project of developing a Search Engine with the focus on Myanmar texts. In this case, one of the most important components of search engine is indexing of the Web documents. In this study, the design and the architecture of a dictionary based indexer for Myanmar Web pages is proposed and which are expected to be used in search engines for Myanmar language.