This demonstration offers the possibilities of querying an Arabic resource and retrieving the most relevant document based on URSA Unicode retrieval system architecture from CRL computing research Laboratory at New Mexico State University. The demonstration uses archive of 5 months of the Arabic newspaper Al-Rayah daily newspaper from Qatar.
The system offers the ability of querying the resources in two ways:

• Simple search or retrieval.
• Stem search retrieval using the morphology analysis.

The last option involves the morphology analysis of the query and extracting the stems of each word to be fed to the retrieval system beside the original query.

Contacts:

For more information about the Arabic Information Retrieval System project please contact Jim Cowie Project head or Ahmed Abdelali Computer Specialist.