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Towards a New Standard Arabic Test Collection for Mono- and Cross-Language Information Retrieval

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Natural Language Processing and Information Systems (NLDB 2014)

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We propose in this paper a new standard Arabic test collection for mono- and cross-language Information Retrieval (CLIR). To do this, we exploit the “Hadith” texts and we provide a portal for sampling and evaluation of Hadiths’ results listed in both Arabic and English versions. The new called “Kunuz” standard Arabic test collection will promote and restart the development of Arabic mono retrieval and CLIR systems blocked since the earlier TREC-2001 and TREC-2002 editions.

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  1. RIADI Research Laboratory, ENSI Manouba University, 2010, Tunisia

    Oussama Ben Khiroun, Raja Ayed, Bilel Elayeb & Narjès Bellamine Ben Saoud

  2. LISI Lab. of Computer Science for Industrial Systems, ISD Manouba University, 2010, Tunisia

    Ibrahim Bounhas

  3. Emirates College of Technology, P.O. Box: 41009, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Bilel Elayeb

  4. Higher Institute of Informatics (ISI), Tunis El Manar University, 1002, Tunisia

    Narjès Bellamine Ben Saoud

  5. Informatics Research Institute of Toulouse (IRIT), 02 Rue Camichel, 31071, Toulouse, France

    Fabrice Evrard

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Ben Khiroun, O., Ayed, R., Elayeb, B., Bounhas, I., Ben Saoud, N.B., Evrard, F. (2014). Towards a New Standard Arabic Test Collection for Mono- and Cross-Language Information Retrieval. In: Métais, E., Roche, M., Teisseire, M. (eds) Natural Language Processing and Information Systems. NLDB 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07983-7_23

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