%K Aluminum; Translation (languages), Al-quran; Ambiguous word; Bigram; Hadith; Malay texts; N-grams; Tri grams; Word prediction, Forecasting %D 2016 %J Proceedings of the 10th INDIACom; 2016 3rd International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development, INDIACom 2016 %A S.S. Sazali %A Z.A. Bakar %A J. Jaafar %T Word prediction algorithm in resolving ambiguity in Malay text %X Word prediction algorithms are widely used in aiding disables by recommending the next potential word to be used. In this paper, the word prediction algorithm, n-gram, is used to resolve ambiguity in Malay text to retrieve relevant information. The test collection consists of Malay translated Al-Quran and Hadith. Initial experiment is conducted using the keyword madu that retrieved 72 Hadiths and 3 translated Al-Quran documents. Experiments are conducted on these retrieved documents using bigram and trigram. Result shows that trigram gives better prediction and retrieved relevant documents compared to the bigram. © 2016 IEEE. %P 1347-1352 %I Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. %L scholars6725 %O cited By 4; Conference of 3rd International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development, INDIACom 2016 ; Conference Date: 16 March 2016 Through 18 March 2016; Conference Code:124533