Query Translation and Expansion for Searching Normal and OCR-Degraded Arabic Text Export

@incollection{citeulike:4344026, abstract = {This paper provides a novel model for English/Arabic Query Translation to search Arabic text, and then expands the Arabic query to handle Arabic OCR-Degraded Text. This includes detection and translation of word collocations, translating single words, transliterating names, and disambiguating translation and transliteration through different approaches. It also expands the query with the expected OCR-Errors that are generated from the Arabic OCR-Errors simulation model which proposed inside the paper. The query translation and expansion model has been supported by different libraries proposed in the paper like a Word Collocations Dictionary, Single Words Dictionaries, a Modern Arabic corpus, and other tools. The model gives high accuracy in translating the Queries from English to Arabic solving the translation and transliteration ambiguities and with orthographic query expansion; it gives high degree of accuracy in handling OCR errors.}, author = {Elghazaly, Tarek and Fahmy, Aly}, citeulike-article-id = {4344026}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00382-0_39}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/d507n34r411l1847}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-00382-0_39}, journal = {Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing}, keywords = {arabic, arabic\_ocr}, pages = {481--497}, posted-at = {2009-04-17 15:11:51}, priority = {0}, title = {Query Translation and Expansion for Searching Normal and OCR-Degraded Arabic Text}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00382-0_39}, year = {2009} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:4344026 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4344026 N2 - This paper provides a novel model for English/Arabic Query Translation to search Arabic text, and then expands the Arabic query to handle Arabic OCR-Degraded Text. This includes detection and translation of word collocations, translating single words, transliterating names, and disambiguating translation and transliteration through different approaches. It also expands the query with the expected OCR-Errors that are generated from the Arabic OCR-Errors simulation model which proposed inside the paper. The query translation and expansion model has been supported by different libraries proposed in the paper like a Word Collocations Dictionary, Single Words Dictionaries, a Modern Arabic corpus, and other tools. The model gives high accuracy in translating the Queries from English to Arabic solving the translation and transliteration ambiguities and with orthographic query expansion; it gives high degree of accuracy in handling OCR errors. JF - Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing EP - 497 TI - Query Translation and Expansion for Searching Normal and OCR-Degraded Arabic Text SP - 481 KW - arabic KW - arabic_ocr AU - Elghazaly, Tarek AU - Fahmy, Aly PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00382-0_39 ER -