Integration of Arabic to a Cross-Lingual Retrieval Tool: Challenges and Perspectives
René Schneider, Thomas Mandl, Christa Womser‐Hacker · 2004
The ambition of this paper is to resume briefly the challenges that Arabic offers in CrossLingual Information Retrieval, to show the potential of MIMOR 1 , a retrieval system, that has proved to be succesful for cross-lingual retrieval tasks, and to propose string matching techniques for feature unification instead of stemming techniques.