Arabic information retrieval

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 239-342

  Darwish, Kareem ^a   Magdy, Walid ^a  

^a QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AD HOC RETRIEVAL; ARABIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ARABIC PROCESSING; CROSS-LANGUAGE RETRIEVAL; DOCUMENT IMAGE RETRIEVAL; DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; QUESTION ANSWERING; RESEARCH INTERESTS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES; WEBSITES;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84893559162     PISSN: 15540669     EISSN: 15540677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/1500000031     Document Type: Article

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