Broad Subjects in Arabic

Against broad subjects in Hebrew

Hebrew has no multiple nominative construction (MNC) of the Japanese type, contrary to the claims of three recent studies. The alleged ‘‘broad subject’’ in the Hebrew constructions is nothing but a left-dislocated DP. A series of arguments is presented to the effect that this DP patterns with Ā-bar phrases and displays none of the subject properties characteristic of either standard or broad su...

Broad Subjects and Clitic Left Dislocation

Reordering Matrix Post-verbal Subjects for Arabic-to-English SMT

We improve our recently proposed technique for integrating Arabic verb-subject constructions in SMT word alignment (Carpuat et al., 2010) by distinguishing between matrix (or main clause) and non-matrix Arabic verb-subject constructions. In gold translations, most matrix VS (main clause verb-subject) constructions are translated in inverted SV order, while non-matrix (subordinate clause) VS con...

the fundaments of providing teaching subjects for arabic language instruction in iranian school

teaching whether it is the type,method,subject or the content, is depended on the textbook to a very great extent and it is one of the most important elements of the learning procedures, and a flowing and updated interpretation for what is called the academic context for the method, and therefore the type and the quality of the textbook is from the issues that concerns those who care about the ...

Constructing and Using Broad-coverage Lexical Resource for Enhancing Morphological Analysis of Arabic

Broad-coverage language resources which provide prior linguistic knowledge must improve the accuracy and the performance of NLP applications. We are constructing a broad-coverage lexical resource to improve the accuracy of morphological analyzers and part-of-speech taggers of Arabic text. Over the past 1200 years, many different kinds of Arabic language lexicons were constructed; these lexicons...