Arabic Stemmer for Search Engines Information Retrieval

Building an Arabic Stemmer for Information Retrieval

In TREC 2002 the Berkeley group participated only in the English-Arabic cross-language retrieval (CLIR) track. One Arabic monolingual run and three English-Arabic cross-language runs were submitted. Our approach to the crosslanguage retrieval was to translate the English topics into Arabic using online English-Arabic machine translation systems. The four official runs are named as BKYMON, BKYCL...

Information Retrieval from Full-Text Arabic Databases: Can Search Engines Designed for English Do the Job?

The amount of electronic information in Arabic and other non-English languages available, especially on the World Wide Web, is increasing. Searches for such information can be undertaken on engines developed with the English language in mind, but will these engines work as effectively in other languages? This article investigates the impact on retrieval of prefixes in Arabic, which are far more...

Information Retrieval Effectiveness of Turkish Search Engines

This is an investigation of information retrieval performance of Turkish search engines with respect to precision, normalized recall, coverage and novelty ratios. We defined seventeen query topics for Arabul, Arama, Netbul and Superonline. These queries were carefully selected to assess the capability of a search engine for handling broad or narrow topic subjects, exclusion of particular inform...

Search Engines - Information Retrieval in Practice

Information Retrieval - Implementing and Evaluating Search Engines

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