<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Arabic-L: Tue 04 Dec 2007</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To post messages to the list, send them to <a href="mailto:arabic-l@byu.edu">arabic-l@byu.edu</a>]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> unsubscribe arabic-l ]</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Directory------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1) Subject:Needs Help creating Arabic Gigaword Ground Truth annotation</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">1)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: 04 Dec 2007</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From:<a href="mailto:a.nwesri@student.rmit.edu.au">a.nwesri@student.rmit.edu.au</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject:Needs Help creating Arabic Gigaword Ground Truth annotation</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; ">I am a PhD student doing a research on Arabic IR at the RMIT university, Melbourne, Australia.<br><br>I am currently creating a manual ground truth for the Arabic giga word collection. I need this to evaluate current Arabic IR systems and to test my new algorithms. <br><br>I posted the message below to the Corpora newsgroup and was advised to post this in the Arabic-L newsgroup. Unfortunately, I am not a member in this group.<br><br>I hope that you can post this in the Arabic-L news group so that many people who are working in the field can participate in this work. <br><br>I highly appreciate your assistance. <br><br>Thanks<br>-------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Hi,<br><br>I have built a tool to create a manual judgement for the Arabic giga Word (AGW) corpus. The corpus is by far the biggest available from LDC.<br><br>Most Arabic Information retrieval systems have been evaluated using the AFP TREC2001 corpus and 75 queries. The corpus is relatively small compared to English corpora. AGW is five times bigger than the TREC2001 corpus.<br><br>Currently I have used a group of 20 people and have collected about 20000 judgement for around 80 queries.<br><br>If you are an Arabic native speaker, I would highly appreciate your contribution to build this ground truth. If you can add one topic and find its relevant documents and mark them you would contribute another topic to the judgement. I am looking to get as more judgements as possible.<br><br>I will make this ground truth available to the research community once I finish my evaluations.<br><br>The link for the annotation tool is<br><br><a href="http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~nwesri/agw/index.php">http://goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au/~nwesri/agw/index.php</a><br><br>Once again I am looking for your support and hope that this will benefit the Arabic IR.<br><br><br>Thanks In Advance,<br><br>Abdusalam Nwesri<br>PhD Student,<br>School of Computer Science and IT,<br>RMIT University,<br>Melbourne,<br>Australia.<br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">End of Arabic-L: 04 Dec 2007</div></body></html>