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Hamshahri: A Standard Persian Text Collection, Abolfazl Aleahmad, Hadi Amiri, Masoud Rahgozar, Farhad Oroumchian

Farhad Oroumchian

The Persian language is one of the dominant languages in the Middle East, so there are significant amount of Persian documents available on the Web. Due to the special and different nature of the Persian language compared to other languages like English, the design of information retrieval systems in Persian requires special considerations. However, there are relatively few studies on retrieval of Persian documents in the literature and one of the main reasons is lack of a standard test collection. In this paper we introduce a standard Persian text collection, named Hamshahri, which is built from a large number of …