Title
The information content of titles of Arabic periodical articles
Abstract
This paper provides a partial answer to the question of whether titles of Arabic periodical articles can be used for keyword indexing techniques. It examines the information content of titles of Arabic research papers in 16 scientific and non-scientific fields by counting the number of their substantive words and comparing the results with those for English periodical articles in the same subject areas. Although significant differences are found between the two samples in some subjects, such as agriculture, philosophy, linguistics, law, and library and information science, Arabic titles generally appear to be as informative as English titles. Some practical problems are found in using Arabic titles for indexing, e.g. the need to strip prefixes from keywords.
Year
DOI
Venue
1991
10.1177/016555159101700107
J. Information Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
arabic periodical article,information content
Journal
17
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0165-5515
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Imad Bachir1524.03
Andrew Buxton231.84