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Abstract

Morphological Analyzer is the essential and basic tool for building any language processing application. Morphological Analysis is the process of providing grammatical information of a word given its suffix. Morphological Analyzer is a computer program which takes a word as input and produces its grammatical structure as output. A Morphological analyzer will return its root/stem word along with its grammatical information depending upon its word category. Classical Tamil Morphology is very rich and agglutinative language. Morphological analyzer is the tool needed for the following Natural Language Processing Applications like information retrieval, search engine, spell checkers, grammar checker, Machine Translation, dictionary making systems, Information extraction and retrieval, content analysis and Question answering systems. The rule-based approach has successfully been used in developing many natural language processing systems.