 Evaluation of n‐gram conflation approaches for Arabic text retrievalFarag Ahmed and Andreas Nürnberger Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009, vol. 60, issue 7, 1448-1465 Abstract: In this paper we present a language‐independent approach for conflation that does not depend on predefined rules or prior knowledge of the target language. The proposed unsupervised method is based on an enhancement of the pure n‐gram model that can group related words based on various string‐similarity measures, while restricting the search to specific locations of the target word by taking into account the order of n‐grams. We show that the method is effective to achieve high score similarities for all word‐form variations and reduces the ambiguity, i.e., obtains a higher precision and recall, compared to pure n‐gram‐based approaches for English, Portuguese, and Arabic. The proposed method is especially suited for conflation approaches in Arabic, since Arabic is a highly inflectional language. Therefore, we present in addition an adaptive user interface for Arabic text retrieval called “araSearch”. araSearch serves as a metasearch interface to existing search engines. The system is able to extend a query using the proposed conflation approach such that additional results for relevant subwords can be found automatically. Date: 2009 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:jamist:v:60:y:2009:i:7:p:1448-1465 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology from Association for Information Science & Technology |
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