Performance of the Google Desktop, Arabic Google Desktop and Peer to Peer Application in Arabic Language
This addresses the problem of low retrieval performance for Arabic language users, but it is incremental as it builds on existing search engines with minor modifications.
The study evaluated the performance of Google Desktop and a peer-to-peer application in Arabic language information retrieval, finding that incorporating word roots improved search accuracy, with results measured using a corpus of 10,000 documents and 100 queries.
The Arabic language is a complex language; it is different from Western languages especially at the morphological and spelling variations. Indeed, the performance of information retrieval systems in the Arabic language is still a problem. For this reason, we are interested in studying the performance of the most famous search engine, which is a Google Desktop, while searching in Arabic language documents. Then, we propose an update to the Google Desktop to take into consideration in search the Arabic words that have the same root. After that, we evaluate the performance of the Google Desktop in this context. Also, we are interested in evaluation the performance of peer-to-peer application in two ways. The first one uses a simple indexation that indexes Arabic documents without taking in consideration the root of words. The second way takes in consideration the roots in the indexation of Arabic documents. This evaluation is done by using a corpus of ten thousand documents and one hundred different queries.