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Fatma El-Ghannam

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arXiv2014

A Lemma Based Evaluator for Semitic Language Text Summarization Systems

Matching texts in highly inflected languages such as Arabic by simple stemming strategy is unlikely to perform well. In this paper, we present a strategy for automatic text matching technique for for inflectional languages, using Arabic as the test case. The system is an extension of ROUGE test in which texts are matched on token's lemma level. The experimental results show an enhancement of detecting similarities between different sentences having same semantics but written in different lexical forms..

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arXiv2013

Concept-based indexing in text information retrieval

Traditional information retrieval systems rely on keywords to index documents and queries. In such systems, documents are retrieved based on the number of shared keywords with the query. This lexical-focused retrieval leads to inaccurate and incomplete results when different keywords are used to describe the documents and queries. Semantic-focused retrieval approaches attempt to overcome this problem by relying on concepts rather than on keywords to indexing and retrieval. The goal is to retrieve documents that are semantically relevant to a given user query. This paper addresses this issue by proposing a solution at the indexing level. More precisely, we propose a novel approach for semantic indexing based on concepts identified from a linguistic resource. In particular, our approach relies on the joint use of WordNet and WordNetDomains lexical databases for concept identification. Furthermore, we propose a semantic-based concept weighting scheme that relies on a novel definition of concept centrality. The resulting system is evaluated on the TIME test collection. Experimental results show the effectiveness of our proposition over traditional IR approaches.

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arXiv2012

Keyphrase Based Arabic Summarizer (KPAS)

This paper describes a computationally inexpensive and efficient generic summarization algorithm for Arabic texts. The algorithm belongs to extractive summarization family, which reduces the problem into representative sentences identification and extraction sub-problems. Important keyphrases of the document to be summarized are identified employing combinations of statistical and linguistic features. The sentence extraction algorithm exploits keyphrases as the primary attributes to rank a sentence. The present experimental work, demonstrates different techniques for achieving various summarization goals including: informative richness, coverage of both main and auxiliary topics, and keeping redundancy to a minimum. A scoring scheme is then adopted that balances between these summarization goals. To evaluate the resulted Arabic summaries with well-established systems, aligned English/Arabic texts are used through the experiments.

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arXiv2012

An Accurate Arabic Root-Based Lemmatizer for Information Retrieval Purposes

In spite of its robust syntax, semantic cohesion, and less ambiguity, lemma level analysis and generation does not yet focused in Arabic NLP literatures. In the current research, we propose the first non-statistical accurate Arabic lemmatizer algorithm that is suitable for information retrieval (IR) systems. The proposed lemmatizer makes use of different Arabic language knowledge resources to generate accurate lemma form and its relevant features that support IR purposes. As a POS tagger, the experimental results show that, the proposed algorithm achieves a maximum accuracy of 94.8%. For first seen documents, an accuracy of 89.15% is achieved, compared to 76.7% of up to date Stanford accurate Arabic model, for the same, dataset.

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