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Peer reviewedKhurshid, Zahiruddin – Information Technology and Libraries, 1992
Discusses the processing of Arabic materials at the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (Saudi Arabia) library and describes the creation of an Arabic online catalog that supplements the catalog for non-Arabic materials. User needs are reviewed, library automation is discussed, and search strategies in the Arabic catalog are described.…
Descriptors: Arabic, Cataloging, College Libraries, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedAl-Kharashi, Ibrahim A.; Evens, Martha W. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1994
Describes experiments in Arabic information retrieval using 29 queries against a base of 355 bibliographic records. Using roots and stems as index terms worked better than words, and the root performed as well as or better than the stem at low recall levels and definitely better at high recall levels. (Contains 30 references.) (KRN)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Arabic, Bibliographic Databases, Comparative Analysis
