Abstract:
The Internet has become a gateway for an abundant resource for information. Web
search engines provide a useful mechanism through which we can look and access
information. Most of the research has been dedicated to Latin languages. Using the Latin
alphabet, this work proposes an extensible mechanism for indexing and Arabic search. The
method expands the capabilities of Arabic search engines and indexing engines. In this work
we propose a rules compiler that extends the Arabic indexing rules used by the indexer at
runtime. We validate our approach using a prototype that was built using Java and MS SQL
Server as a backend RDBMS. Tests have been made on a sample of Arabic documents and a
starting set of indexing rules.
