Web Search Engine for Myanmar Language

Abstract

Web search engines play an important role for information retrieval on World Wide Web. There are many search engines according to their languages, but very few research areas for Myanmar Language. Search engine that can handle the typical characteristics of Myanmar Language is needed. The proposed Myanmar search engine contains the crawler, indexer, and query processor components. In crawling, proposed new rule based syllable language identification is used to determine the relevancy of Myanmar Web pages. There are two new methods as contributed in indexing. Proposed new Myanmar grammar based word segmentation and proposed new Myanmar word Sorting are used in indexing structure to provide the most relevant documents to the users in least possible time. Documents are ranked according to their degree of relevance to the query words segmented by Myanmar grammar rules and documents using the cosine similarity measure.