semantics in arabic words in jahez,s al-bayan & al-tabeen

Al-Bayan: A Knowledge-based System for Arabic Answer Selection

This paper describes Al-Bayan team participation in SemEval-2015 Task 3, Subtask A. Task 3 targets semantic solutions for answer selection in community question answering systems. We propose a knowledge-based solution for answer selection of Arabic questions, specialized for Islamic sciences. We build a Semantic Interpreter to evaluate the semantic similarity between Arabic question and answers...

Al-Bayan: An Arabic Question Answering System for the Holy Quran

Recently, Question Answering (QA) has been one of the main focus of natural language processing research. However, Arabic Question Answering is still not in the mainstream. The challenges of the Arabic language and the lack of resources have made it difficult to provide Arabic QA systems with high accuracy. While low accuracies may be accepted for general purpose systems, it is critical in some...

Al Qamus al Muhit, a Medieval Arabic Lexicon in LMF

This paper describes the conversion into LMF, a standard lexicographic digital format of ’al-qāmūs al-muh. īt . , a Medieval Arabic lexicon. The lexicon is first described, then all the steps required for the conversion are illustrated. The work is will produce a useful lexicographic resource for Arabic NLP, but is also interesting per se, to study the implications of adapting the LMF model to ...

Media Reflection of Syrian Crisis in B.B.C Arabic, al-Arabyia and al-Alam Websites

Along with waves of Islamic awaking in the ME during 2011 and 2012, a series of events took place in Syria which were completely different from this wave and tackled this country with numerous problems for a long time. To display media reflection of Syrian crisis, this article has studied 95 analytic editorial from al-Alam, al-Arabyia and BBC Arabic websites in a six month period from October 1...

dialectal words in al-sâmi fi al-asâmi dictionary

al-sâmi fi al-asâmi is one of the important and authentic arabic-to-persian dictionaries, and has been used by many of the subsequent lexicographers. in this dictionary the subjects are first classified and then divided to some chapters. the author has gathered some arabic words in each chapter and has given their persian equals. in this article the dialectal and old words of this dictionary ar...

Critique of Arabic Texts/ Critical Review of Al-Adab al-Arabi Min-Asr al-Jahili, Ali Ghahramani and Masoud Bavanpour