Five Stories (Translated from the Arabic by Nedelya Kitaeva)

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How can stories get translated into future artefacts ?

At CID (the Centre for User Oriented IT-design at The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm) several series of workshops has been conducted in different kinds of projects (Westerlund 2003, 2005b). The workshops were used to create design ideas and to acquire understanding of presumptive users’ needs and desires (Lindquist 2004). The different projects have involved families, distributed wo...

Psychometric Properties of the Arabic Translated Version of the RCMAS: Preliminary Indicators from a Jordanian Sample

This study examined the acceptability, reliability, and validity of the Arabic translated version of the Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale (RCMAS) (Reynolds & Richmond, 1978). This instrument is one of the most widely used instruments for assessing childhood anxiety. It has been demonstrated to be reliable across different gender, racial, and age groups. A cross cultural validation was ...

Benchmarking Machine Translated Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Tweets

Traditional approaches to Sentiment Analysis (SA) rely on large annotated data sets or wide-coverage sentiment lexica, and as such often perform poorly on under-resourced languages. This paper presents empirical evidence of an efficient SA approach using freely available machine translation (MT) systems to translate Arabic tweets to English, which we then label for sentiment using a state-of-th...

Toward a computer study of the reliability of Arabic stories

The Arabic storytelling methodology provides solutions to the problem of information reliability.The reliability of a story depends on the credibility of its narrators.To insure reliability verification, the narrators’ names are explicitly cited at the head of the story, which constitute its chain of narrators. Stories were reported from a generation to another to insure the reliable transmissi...