01675nas a2200169   4500008004100000245004600041210004300087260000900130300001400139490000600153520113900159653002001298653002101318653003401339100001501373856011701388       2010                        eng d00aOn Arabic texts compression and searching0 aArabic texts compression and searching  c2010  a355 - 3610 v83 aWith the dramatic increasing of electronic Arabic content, the text compression techniques will play a major role in several domains and applications such as search engines, data archiving, searching and retrieval from huge databases. Mainly the combination of compression and indexing techniques allows the interesting possibility to work directly on the compressed textual files or databases, which results saving time and resources. The existing compression techniques and tools are generic and do not consider the specific characteristics of the Arabic language such as its derivative nature. Mainly compression techniques should be based on the morphology characteristics of the Arabic language, its grammatical characteristics, the texts subject, and their statistical characteristics. The paper surveys the state of the art of the Arabic texts compression techniques and tools and identifies some research tracks that should be explored in future. It presents also some dedicated Arabic text compression algorithms which save more physical space and speed up the data retrieval text files by searching in their compressed form.10aArabic language10aData compression10aSearching in compressed files1 aSallay, H.  uhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79960677042&partnerID=40&md5=e14b05b52c375cabf39af4b4801c5c91