M-Hadith: Retrieving Malay Haditli text in a mobile application

Recent rapid advances in handheld devices make it possible for users to retrieve information anytime and anywhere. Existing information retrieval techniques usually require the users to spend much effort to refine their queries. Information retrieval in mobile devices would represent an extremely challenging search environment. Due to the existing challenging constraints in technology, there is a need to have a simple and easy information retrieval in mobile with an attractive interface to attract more users to use this application. The M-Hadith prototype is designed to provide searching Malay Hadith text based on query word using stemming algorithm to get results on the query. Since, stemming is a basic text processing tool where it is used for efficient and effective text retrieval and machine translation, therefore, it has been adapted in the development of M-Hadith. Early results in the mobile simulator show compatibility and efficiency in various type of mobile devices.