TY - JFULL AU - Mohd Pouzi Hamzah and Tengku Mohd Tengku Sembok PY - 2007/11/ TI - Enhancing Retrieval Effectiveness of Malay Documents by Exploiting Implicit Semantic Relationship between Words T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 3203 EP - 3209 VL - 1 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/5974 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 10, 2007 N2 - Phrases has a long history in information retrieval, particularly in commercial systems. Implicit semantic relationship between words in a form of BaseNP have shown significant improvement in term of precision in many IR studies. Our research focuses on linguistic phrases which is language dependent. Our results show that using BaseNP can improve performance although above 62% of words formation in Malay Language based on derivational affixes and suffixes. ER -