On Arabic Texts Compression and Searching

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

Characteristics of Arabic Identity in Intellectual System of Hisham Kalbi based on his Books on Genealogy

Science of "Genealogy" was one of the branches of History and Historiography during the age of Jāhilīyah (age of ignorance) which has grown rapidly in the Islamic era. In this context, Hisham Kalbi (d. 204 AH. / 819 AD.), as the first author and editor of Genealogy, has a great contribution to the formation and prosperity of this science, with two important texts, the Jamharat Al-Ansab and Nasa...

Direct Pattern Matching on Compressed Text

We present a fast compression and decompression technique for natural language texts. The novelty is that the exact search can be done on the compressed text directly, using any known sequential pattern matching algorithm. Approximate search can also be done ee-ciently without any decoding. The compression scheme uses a semi-static word-based modeling and a Huu-man coding where the coding alpha...

The Reality of Arabic Fiction Translation into English: A Sociological Approach

English translations of texts associated with Arabic fiction remain largely unexplored from a sociological perspective. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology, this paper aims to examine the genesis of Arabic fiction translation into English as a socially situated activity. Works of Arabic fiction emerged in English translation in the early twentieth century. Since then, this intellectual field...

Classifying and Segmenting Classical and Modern Standard Arabic using Minimum Cross-Entropy

Text classification is the process of assigning a text or a document to various predefined classes or categories to reflect their contents. With the rapid growth of Arabic text on the Web, studies that address the problems of classification and segmentation of the Arabic language are limited compared to other languages, most of which implement word-based and feature extraction algorithms. This ...