Structure-based evaluation of an arabic semantic query expansion using the JIRS passage retrieval system

Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, SEMITIC@EACL 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 62-68

  Abouenour, Lahsen ^a   Bouzoubaa, Karim ^a   Rosso, Paolo ^b  

^a MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPANSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

ARABIC LANGUAGES; ARABIC SEMANTICS; ARABIC WORDNET; COMPLEX MORPHOLOGY; INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEMS; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC QUERY EXPANSION; STRUCTURE-BASED;

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EID: 84922038247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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