Indexing

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush's administration engaged in a concerted communications effort intended to highlight the necessity of aggressive diplomatic and military action against the nation's enemies. Iraq was identified as a key t…

This dissertation is an attempt to make sense out of the many questions surrounding news media performance and its inadequacies. Are journalists and their related professional practices to blame for the failings of news content or is it more a function of the structure in which …

This study uses a quantitative content analysis to determine the framing used by U.S. mainstream newspapers in media coverage of the 2011 Egyptian protests. The study examined 153 stories from The New York Times and The Washington Post. The study focuses on how sources framed th…

This dissertation explores a valid alternative to the word method for indexing and retrieving Arabic documents based on a finite number of word fragments, called n-grams. Based on the statistical properties of n-grams in six Arabic corpora, an optimization function of the size o…

Investigation of methods of automatic information retrieval for Arabic is essential to the growth of learning in the Arab world. It is the simplest and most cost-effective way to make the resources of large reference libraries available to the increasing numbers of students and …