%0 Journal Article
%T The effect of using a thesaurus in Arabic information retrieval system
%A Mohammad Wedyan
%A Basim Alhadidi
%A Adnan Alrabea
%J International Journal of Computer Science Issues
%D 2012
%I IJCSI Press
%X Automatic query expansion methods for English and other languages text retrieval have been studied for a long time. In this research we study the retrieval effectiveness, achieved when we apply a successful automatic query expansion method in Arabic text retrieval based on an automatic thesaurus. Our experiments show that the automatic query expansion method resulted in a notable improvement in Arabic text retrieval using a sample of abstracts of Arabic documents. The study showed that the use of a thesaurus has improved information retrieval system by 10% -20%. The study also shows that the greater the number of documents in the building thesaurus, Thesaurus was more accurate.
%K Arabic retrieval
%K thesaurus
%K stop words
%K indexing
%K information retrieval system
%K IJCSI
%U http://www.ijcsi.org/papers/IJCSI-9-6-1-431-435.pdf