Examining the effect of improved context sensitive morphology on Arabic information retrieval

Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages Workshop Proceedings, SEMITIC@ACL 2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 25-30

  Darwish, Kareem ^a,b   Hassan, Hany ^b   Emam, Ossama ^b  

^a German University in Cairo   (Egypt)

^b IBM Center for Advanced Studies in Cairo   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

ARABIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; CONTEXT-SENSITIVE; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; RETRIEVAL EFFECTIVENESS;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84871035457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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