Semantic-based segmentation of Arabic texts

Information Technology Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1009-1015

  Touir, Ameur A ^a,b   Mathkour, Hassan ^a   Al Sanea, Waleed ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b NONE   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabic text processing; Computational linguistics; Information retrieval; Text segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS; ARABIC TEXT PROCESSING; ARABIC TEXTS; AUTOMATIC TECHNIQUES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; IN LINES; MANUAL SEGMENTATIONS; TEXT SEGMENTATION;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 56749134199     PISSN: 18125638     EISSN: 18125646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/itj.2008.1009.1015     Document Type: Article

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