TY - JOUR T1 - AEHURA: A New Ranking Algorithm for Arabic Web Search Engines AU - Hajeer, Safaa I. AU - Ismail, Rasha M. AU - Badr, Nagwa L. AU - Tolba, M.F. JO - Asian Journal of Information Technology VL - 14 IS - 3 SP - 105 EP - 110 PY - 2015 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1682-3915 DO - ajit.2015.105.110 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2015.105.110 KW - Information Retrieval (IR) KW -tokenization KW -search engine KW -indexing KW -Arabic language KW -usage-based ranking KW -content-based ranking KW -link-based ranking AB - Most search engine systems mainly focusing on developing Western languages such as English so these search engine systems have a high performance on these languages but they don’t have the same performance when they are used for Eastern languages such as Arabic. Furthermore, Arabic is a highly inflected language that has a complex morphological structure, so search engines always have a challenge to find the best ranked list to the user’s query from those huge numbers of pages. A lot of search results that correspond to a user’s query are not relevant to the user’s need. Most of the page ranking algorithms use link-based ranking (web structure) or content-based ranking to calculate the relevancy of the information to the user’s need but those ranking algorithms might not be enough to provide a good ranked list for the Arabic search. So in this study, we proposed an efficient Arabic information retrieval system using a new Arabic hybrid usage-based ranking algorithm called AEHURA. The objective of this algorithm is to overcome the drawbacks of the ranking algorithms and improve the efficiency of Arabic web searching. ER -