Description

Thesaurus has become another valuable structure in any Information Retrieval system. It is a list of terms and concepts that provide a controlled vocabulary of words to use in document indexing, clustering, searching and retrieval. This paper presents the results of expanding user’s query using thesaurus in the process of searching documents from Hadith retrieval system. The results obtained shows that the retrieval effectiveness improves by four percent when thesaurus is employed in the process of retrieving translated Hadith documents, compared to when single term queries are employed. Hadith gets a great attention in the last few years, in this paper we investigate the opportunity to innovate an automatic Hadith Conceptual processing system that can help to retrieve the exact documents based on the query posted by the user.