NDLI: On the use of fuzzy information retrieval for gauging similarity of Arabic documents

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Author	Alzahrani, S.M. Salim, N.
Copyright Year	2009
Description	Author affiliation: Faculty of CS & Info. Sys, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia (Salim, N.) \|\| Faculty of CS & Info. Sys, Taif University, Hawiah 21974, Saudi Arabia (Alzahrani, S.M.)
Abstract	As one of the richest human languages in terms of words constructions and diversity of meanings, judging similarity amongst statements in Arabic documents is complex. In this paper, we present a mechanism for gauging similarity of Arabic documents using fuzzy IR model. Similarity degree of two documents is the averaged similarity among statements treated as equal although they have been restructured or reworded. We introduced some fuzzy similarity sets such as near duplicate, very similar, similar, slightly similar, dissimilar and very dissimilar. These similarity sets can be implemented as a spectrum of values ranges from 1 (duplicate) and 0 (different). Our corpus collection has been built in which all stop words were removed and nonstop words were stemmed using typical Arabic IR techniques. The corpora has 100 documents with 4477 statements and 54346 non-stop-word, stemmed words in total. Another 15 query documents with 303 statements and 1620 words were specifically constructed for our test. Experimental results show that fuzzy IR can be used to define the extent documents are similar or dissimilar, where similarity can be mapped to one of the proposed fuzzy sets. The performance of our fuzzy IR system, measured in fuzzy precision and fuzzy recall, shows that it outperforms Boolean IR in retrieving more documents that have similar content but with different synonyms.
Starting Page	539
Ending Page	544
File Size	360546
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424444564
DOI	10.1109/ICADIWT.2009.5273835
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2009-08-04
Publisher Place	United Kingdom
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Content based retrieval Uncertainty Similarity Humans Information retrieval HTML Fuzzy logic Fuzzy sets Arabic Aggregates Fuzzy IR Information Retrieval Fuzzy systems Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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