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Cross-Language Retrieval For Arabic Texts: The Creation Of An English-Arabic Cross-Language Information Retrieval Environment, Robert N. Oddy, Anne R. Diekema, Jean Hannouche, Grant Ingersoll, Elizabeth D. Liddy

Robert Oddy

An English-Arabic Cross-Language Information Retrieval Environment was created in which the user can query an Arabic database in English and retrieve a set of relevant Arabic documents. The retrieved Arabic documents will be automatically translated into English to facilitate readability by the English language user. Proper names of people, places, and organizations are extracted from the retrieved documents and transliterated from Arabic into English. They are presented to the user and serve to provide a brief summarization of the retrieved document. Another feature of the AIR design is the user’s ability to group searches and search results into what we …