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Digital document processing is becoming popular for applications to office and library automation, bank and postal services, publishing houses and communication management. In recent years, the demand for tools capable of searching written and spoken sources of multilingual info…

The Republic of Turkey was established in 1923 out of the ruins of the Ottoman Empire. Soon thereafter, Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk) and his ruling Cumhuriyet Halkci Partisi (Republican People's Party) launched a series of reforms which were designed to transform all aspects of life,…

The merchants recorded in the Cairo Geniza appear to be perfectly situated to carry on cosmopolitan trade throughout the Mediterranean and Islamic Asia. From their center in the Egyptian capital, family ties connected them from Spain to Persia, while Jewish religious authority r…

Using information retrieval systems to gain access to documents in languages other than English is becoming an increasingly significant problem. Rules, theories, algorithms, and retrieval methods designed and developed for English and other morphologically similar languages may …