Myanmar Traditional Lexicographic Sorting

Abstract

Lexicographic sorting is the task of arranging an unordered collection of words into increasing or decreasing order.The main objective of this paper is to develop Myanmar lexicographic sorting method in Myanmar traditional way. Myanmar lexicographic sorting is very important in indexing of search engine to optimize in the searching process. Myanmar lexicographic sorting is a difficult task in natural language processing since the nature of Myanmar script is complex rather than the English language. This paper proposes an efficient method for syllable segmentation and lexicographic sorting. Syllable boundary is determined by analyzing the possible combination in a syllable from Myanmar orthographic book. Lexicographic order is determined by comparing the each segmented syllable in Myanmar traditional way. The proposed system can handle not only normal words but also abnormal words including pali loan words, English loan words, kinzi and other complex words.