Similar Thesaurus Based on Arabic Document: An Overview and Comparison
Essam Said Hanandeh · International Journal of Computer Science Engineering and Applications · 2013
The massive grow of the modern information retrieval system (IRS), especially in natural languages becomes more difficult.The search in Arabic languages, as natural language, is not good enough yet.This paper will try to build similar thesaurus based on Arabic language in two mechanisms, the first one is full word mechanisms and the other is stemmed mechanisms, and then to compare between them.The comparison made by this study proves that the similar thesaurus using stemmed mechanisms get more better results than using traditional in the same mechanisms and similar thesaurus improved more the recall and precision than traditional information retrieval system at recall and precision levels.