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Optimizing an Arabic Query using Comprehensive Query Expansion Techniques

by Mohammed Otair, Ghassan Kanaan, Raed Kanaan
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 71 - Number 17
Year of Publication: 2013
Authors: Mohammed Otair, Ghassan Kanaan, Raed Kanaan
10.5120/12454-9244

Mohammed Otair, Ghassan Kanaan, Raed Kanaan . Optimizing an Arabic Query using Comprehensive Query Expansion Techniques. International Journal of Computer Applications. 71, 17 ( June 2013), 42-49. DOI=10.5120/12454-9244

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author = { Mohammed Otair, Ghassan Kanaan, Raed Kanaan },
title = { Optimizing an Arabic Query using Comprehensive Query Expansion Techniques },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { June 2013 },
volume = { 71 },
number = { 17 },
month = { June },
year = { 2013 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 42-49 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume71/number17/12454-9244/ },
doi = { 10.5120/12454-9244 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%A Ghassan Kanaan
%A Raed Kanaan
%T Optimizing an Arabic Query using Comprehensive Query Expansion Techniques
%J International Journal of Computer Applications
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%V 71
%N 17
%P 42-49
%D 2013
%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

By querying a search engine, a user probably can get what he or she wants. However, the average number of terms specified by a user in a query is generally two or three [23]. This often leads to several problems. To overcome such problems, various query expansion techniques have been developed. However, none of them are asserted to present the optimal solution, especially in Arabic language because its complex morphological structure. Thus, the main goal of this paper is to optimize Arabic queries using comprehensive combination of these expansion techniques that can be used to improve the expansion process and to get most of the relevant documents for the Arabic user's query. The paper concluded that the developed system improved the recall and precision over couples of separated techniques. This approach takes advantages of both automatic and interactive query expansion techniques because query is expanded automatically and users are involved implicitly for query expansion.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Information Retrieval Query Expansion Thesaurus Relevance Feedback Interactive Query Expansion

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