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A Hybrid Approach for Indexing and Retrieval of Archaeological Textual Information

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Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES 2010)

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This paper focuses on the problem of archaeological textual information retrieval, covering various field-related topics, and investigating different issues related to special characteristics of Arabic.

The suggested hybrid retrieval approach employs various clustering and classification methods that enhances both retrieval and presentation, and infers further information from the results returned by a primary retrieval engine, which, in turn, uses Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) as a primary retrieval method. In addition, a stemmer for Arabic words was designed and implemented to facilitate the indexing process and to enhance the quality of retrieval.

The performance of our module was measured by carrying out experiments using standard datasets, where the system showed promising results with many possibilities for future research and further development.

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  1. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, Bloomington

    Ammar Halabi & Mohamed-Zakaria Kurdi

  2. Financial Mathematics Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee

    Ahmed-Derar Islim

  3. Department of Computer Science, Mamoun University of Science and Technology, Aleppo, Syria

    Mohamed-Zakaria Kurdi

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  1. School of Engineering, Cardiff University, The Parade, CF24 3AA, Cardiff, UK

    Rossitza Setchi

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Portsmouth, BUckingham Building, Lion Terrace, PO1 3HE, Portsmouth, UK

    Ivan Jordanov

  3. KES International, 145-157 St. John Street, EC1V 4PY, London, UK

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  4. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Mawson Lakes Campus, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Halabi, A., Islim, AD., Kurdi, MZ. (2010). A Hybrid Approach for Indexing and Retrieval of Archaeological Textual Information. In: Setchi, R., Jordanov, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6279. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15384-6_56

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