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Current Approaches in Arabic IR: A Survey

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Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information (ICADL 2008)

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Arabic information retrieval is a popular area of research. This paper presents the current state-of-the-art in Arabic Information Retreival (IR) approaches. Moreover, it provides general guidance for open research areas and future directions.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701, South Africa

    Mohammed Mustafa, Hisham AbdAlla & Hussein Suleman

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK

    George Buchanan

  2. Computer Science Department, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Masood Masoodian

  3. Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Sally Jo Cunningham

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Mustafa, M., AbdAlla, H., Suleman, H. (2008). Current Approaches in Arabic IR: A Survey. In: Buchanan, G., Masoodian, M., Cunningham, S.J. (eds) Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information. ICADL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89533-6_57

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