DESIGN AND DISCOURSE OF MODERN STANDARD ARABIC E-TEXTBOOK

Automated Assessment of Spoken Modern Standard Arabic

Proficiency testing is an important ingredient in successful language teaching. However, repeated testing for course placement, over the course of instruction or for certification can be time-consuming and costly. We present the design and validation of the Versant Arabic Test, a fully automated test of spoken Modern Standard Arabic, that evaluates test-takers' facility in listening and speakin...

Automatic Assessment of Spoken Modern Standard Arabic

Proficiency testing is an important ingredient in successful language teaching. However, repeated testing for course placement, over the course of instruction or for certification can be time-consuming and costly. We present the design and validation of the Versant Arabic Test, a fully automated test of spoken Modern Standard Arabic, that evaluates test-takers' facility in listening and speakin...

Building A Modern Standard Arabic Corpus

Language Engineering, including Information Retrieval, Machine Translation and other Natural Language-related disciplines, is showing in recent years more interest in the Arabic language. Suitable resources for Arabic are becoming a vital necessity for the progress of this research. Until recently, only two Arabic corpora were commonly available for researchers: the AFP Arabic newswire from LDC...

Unsupervised Induction of Modern Standard Arabic Verb Classes and Alternations

Verbs (in lemma form) and syntactic frames are automatically extracted from the ATB.! In order to acquire an argument structure for the verbs,!I only considered structure that is internal to the maximal Verb Phrase (VP) projection of the verb. However, within the VP, all sisters of the verb are excluded except for those in a close semantic relationship to the verb.! This is facilitated by the f...

E Representing Templates, Number, and Gender: Self-Paced Reading Evidence from Modern Standard Arabic