Developing the COVID-19 Malay Corpus Using WordPress Content Management System (CMS)

This paper presents the development of COVID-19 Malay Corpus using the WordPress content management system (CMS). The COVID-19 Malay Corpus is an information retrieval system that collects articles related to COVID-19 from Malay online news media by using a crawler or web content extractor. This proposed system used a search engine that takes search queries to retrieves the news articles in the Malay language over the COVID-19 and related. The system can be used by Malay-speaking people to search and read documents about COVID-19 in the Malay language since most of the documents available are in English. WordPress has been used for developing this system as it has more plugins, themes, and other customizations available than the other CMS. Besides, it provides many plugins that enhance website functionality, including the Octolooks Scrapes plugin and Relevanssi plugin that are used for crawler and indexing, and the Yoast SEO plugin used for search engine optimization (SEO). This system’s collection has been tested and evaluated by COVID-19 Malay Corpus documents, stopwords list, Malay root words, terms weighting, indexing result, Malay natural language query list, relevant judgment list, relevant queries feedback, and retrieval evaluation by using precision and recall.