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SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Improving stemming for Arabic information retrieval: light stemming and co-occurrence analysis
Arabic, a highly inflected language, requires good stemming for effective information retrieval, yet no standard approach to stemming has emerged. We developed several light stemm...
Leah S. Larkey, Lisa Ballesteros, Margaret E. Conn...
ITCC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Arabic Stemming Without A Root Dictionary
We have implemented a root-extraction stemmer for Arabic which is similar to the Khoja stemmer but without a root dictionary. Our stemmer was found to perform equivalently to the ...
Kazem Taghva, Rania Elkhoury, Jeffrey S. Coombs
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
Arabic Retrieval Revisited: Morphological Hole Filling
Due to Arabic’s morphological complexity, Arabic retrieval benefits greatly from morphological analysis – particularly stemming. However, the best known stemming does not hand...
Kareem Darwish, Ahmed Ali
ACL
2003
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Arabic Stemming Using a Parallel Corpus
This paper presents an unsupervised learning approach to building a non-English (Arabic) stemmer. The stemming model is based on statistical machine translation and it uses an Eng...
Monica Rogati, J. Scott McCarley, Yiming Yang
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Empirical studies in strategies for Arabic retrieval
This work evaluates a few search strategies for Arabic monolingual and cross-lingual retrieval, using the TREC Arabic corpus as the test-bed. The release by NIST in 2001 of an Ara...
Jinxi Xu, Alexander Fraser, Ralph M. Weischedel