Arabic Studies’ Progress in Information Retrieval

Arabic Studies’ Progress in Information Retrieval

The field of information retrieval has witnessed tangible progress over the past decades in response to the expanded usage of the internet and the dire need of users to search for massive amounts of digital information. Given the steady increase of Arabic e-content, excellent information retrieval systems must be devised to suit the nature and requirements of the Arabic language. This paper she...

Arabic Information Retrieval

In the past several years, Arabic Information Retrieval (IR) has garnered significant attention. The main research interests have focused on retrieval of formal language, mostly in the news domain, with ad hoc retrieval, OCR document retrieval, and cross-language retrieval. The literature on other aspects of retrieval continues to be sparse or non-existent, though some of these aspects have bee...

Arabic Information Retrieval Perspectives

Arabic IR (Information Retrieval) has recently become a focus of research and commercial development. Very few standards for evaluation of such tools are known and available. A concrete evaluation for Arabic IR systems is necessary for the advancement of this field. In this paper we discuss available resources for testing Arabic IR systems and we propose a strategy to accelerate the development...

Arabic Information Retrieval at IBM

Semantic Arabic Information Retrieval Framework

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