The University of Massachusetts took on the TREC10 cross-language track with no prior experience with Arabic, and no Arabic speakers among any of our researchers or students. We intended to implement some standard approaches, and to extend a language modeling approach to handle co-occurrences. Given the lack of resources – training data, electronic bilingual dictionaries, and stemmers, and our ...

each nation has something to proud and glory it, and this is the manner of arabs who proud about their language and good style, and they maintained on their language because they sent their sons into al badaiy desert’ to keep their arabic language, even with we have found in their language some  arabic and  loan words and from here it was our subject for investigating loan words in the book of ...

The advancement of Information and Communication Technology has impacted all aspects of the human life. It has changed the way we work, travel, conduct business, study and communicate. For the Deaf community, we try to use ICT to improve their quality of life by developing systems that can help them communicate better with the rest of the world and amongst themselves. In this paper we present t...

Arabic Sign Language recognition is an emerging field of research. Previous attempts at automatic vision-based recognition of Arabic Sign Language mainly focused on finger spelling and recognizing isolated gestures. In this paper we report the first continuous Arabic Sign Language by building on existing research in feature extraction and pattern recognition. The development of the presented wo...

After the successful completion of the NEMLAR project 2003-2005, a new opportunity for a project was opened by the European Commission, and a group of largely the same partners is now executing the MEDAR project. MEDAR will be updating the surveys and BLARK for Arabic already made, and will then focus on machine translation (and other tools for translation) and information retrieval with a focu...

As a critical language, there is huge potential for the usefulness of an Arabic Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) system. This task involves two subtasks: predicate argument boundary detection and argument classification. Based on the innovations of Diab, Moschitti, and Pighin (2007) in the field of Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP), SRL in particular, we are currently developing a system for...

The objective of this paper is to present an under-resourced language related to Arabic. In fact, in several countries through the Arabic world, no one speaks the modern standard Arabic language. People speak something which is inspired from Arabic but could be very different from the modern standard Arabic. This one is reserved for the official broadcast news, official discourses and so on. Th...

Although, optical character recognition has made tremendous achievements in the area of desktop publishing, yet a huge amount of work is required to be done. Unlike Roman like languages, there are various languages possessing a large number of fonts and/or having complicated shapes. Arabic language is one of those languages, which is somewhat complicated in its construction. Although a reasonab...