A stemmer is a light-weight approach to find root words, avoiding expensive morphological analysis. The BanglaKit Stemmer implements a stepwise approach to removing inflections from Bengali Words [1].

Work is in progress with the algorithm of the stemmer, the implementations may vary significantly from version to version.

Originally Developed by Rafi Kamal. Ported to Python.:

from bengali_stemmer.rafikamal2014 import RafiStemmer
stemmer = RafiStemmer()
stemmer.stem_word('বাংলায়')

Originally Implemented by M. R. Mahmud, M. Afrin, M. A. Razzaque, E. Miller and J. Iwashige. Ported to Python [1] Under development. As of now, only verb stemming has been implemented. mahmud2014 package under banglakit.

[1] M. R. Mahmud, M. Afrin, M. A. Razzaque, E. Miller and J. Iwashige, "A rule based bengali stemmer," 2014 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), New Delhi, 2014, pp. 2750-2756. doi: 10.1109/ICACCI.2014.6968484