TY  - JOUR
T1  - Arabic Query Expansion: A Review
AU - Atwan, Jaffar AU - Mohd, Masnizah 
JO  - Asian Journal of Information Technology
VL  - 16
IS  - 10
SP  - 754
EP  - 770
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1682-3915
DO  - ajit.2017.754.770
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2017.754.770
KW  - Arabic query expansion
KW  -information retrieval
KW  -word sense disambiguation
KW  -stemming
KW  -lemmatization
KW  -difficulties
AB  - Finding a quick and efficient Query Expansion (QE) technique for all languages has become an urgent
necessity because there is no query expansion technique that fully meets user’s requirement. Each technique
has its own advantages and disadvantages due to the differences in the languages spoken throughout the
world and the vast developments occurred on World Wide Web. Focussing on Arabic, the main problems
facing QE are term conflation, stemming and lemmatization and word sense disambiguation. Thus, the purpose
of this study is to shed light on some of the techniques that employ Arabic QE available in literature and to
encourage researchers to study these techniques. This study focuses on and summarizes the major techniques
used in query expansion for Arabic information retrieval and discusses their strengths and weaknesses. It
begins with some of the linguistic characteristics of the Arabic language the features of Arabic that are related
to query expansion and the possible difficulties that they might present. Researchers concludes by offering
suggestions for future research which of these approaches might be suitable for dealing with the specific
features of the Arabic language.
ER  -