Arabic Query Expansion Using WordNet and Association Rules

Abbache, A, Meziane, F ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9811-6914, Belalem, G and Belkredim, F Z 2016, 'Arabic Query Expansion Using WordNet and Association Rules' , International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, 3 (12) .

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Abstract

Query expansion is the process of adding additional relevant terms to the original queries to improve the performance of information retrieval systems. However, previous studies showed that automatic query expansion using WordNet do not lead to an improvement in the performance. One of the main challenges of query expansion is the selection of appropriate terms. In this paper, we review this problem using Arabic WordNet and Association Rules within the context of Arabic Language. The results obtained confirmed that with an appropriate selection method, we are able to exploit Arabic WordNet to improve the retrieval performance. Our empirical results on a sub-corpus from the Xinhua collection showed that our automatic selection method has achieved a significant performance improvement in terms of MAP and recall and a better precision with the first top retrieved documents.

Item Type:	Article
Schools:	Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre
Journal or Publication Title:	International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies
Publisher:	IGI Publishing
ISSN:	1548-3657
Related URLs:	Publication
Funders:	Non funded research
Depositing User:	Prof Farid Meziane
Date Deposited:	20 Jun 2016 10:16
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2022 20:54
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/39213

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