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[15] Voorhees E. , Query Expansion Using Lexical- Semantic Relations , in Proceedings of ACM- SIGIR , Dublin, Ireland, pp. 61 69, ACM/Springer, 1994. Zakaria Elberrichi is lecturer in computer science and a researcher at Evolutionary Engineering and Distributed Information Systems Laboratory, EEDIS at the University Djillali Liabes, Sidi-belabbes, Algeria. He holds a master degree in computer science from the California State Universi ty in addition to PGCert in higher education. He has m ore than 17 years of experience in teaching both BSc an d MSc levels in computer science and planning and leading data mining related projects. The last one called New Methodologies for Knowledge Acquisition . He supervises five master students in e- larning, text mining, web services, and workflow. 24 The International Arab Journal of Information Techn ology, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2008 Abdellatif Rahmoun received his BSc degree in electrical engineering, University of Science and Engineering of Oran, Algeria, his Master degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Oregon State University, USA, and his PhD degree in computer engineering, Algeria . Currently, he is a lecturer in Computer Science Department, Faculty of Planning and Management, King Faisal University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Hi s areas of interest include fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and genetic programming, neural networks and applications, designing ga-based neuro fuzzy systems, decision support systems, AI applications, e-learning, electronic commerce and electronic business and fractal image compression using genetic tools.