The Arabic language is morphologically rich and syntactically complex with many differences from European languages, and this creates a challenge when porting existing annotation tools to Arabic. In this paper, we present an ongoing effort in lexical semantic analysis and annotation of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) text, a semi automatic annotation tool concerned with the morphologic, syntactic,...

In this paper, we propose a new semisupervised approach for Arabic word sense disambiguation. Using the corpus and Arabic Wordnet, we define a method to cluster the sentences containing ambiguous words. For each sense, we generate a cluster that we use to construct a semantic tree. Furthermore, we construct a weighted directed graph by matching the tree of the original sentence with semantic tr...

This paper proposes a set of rules for the automatic generation of F0 contours for modern standard Arabic (MSA) affirmative and interrogative sentences. The objective is to finalize a model for the automatic processing of the intonative pattern in different TTS systems (e.g. synthesis by formants using Klatt synthesizer and synthesis by diphones, using a synthesizer based on PSOLA algorithm). T...

We present Arab-Acquis, a large publicly available dataset for evaluating machine translation between 22 European languages and Arabic. Arab-Acquis consists of over 12,000 sentences from the JRCAcquis (Acquis Communautaire) corpus translated twice by professional translators, once from English and once from French, and totaling over 600,000 words. The corpus follows previous data splits in the ...

We describe our system, ConvKN, participating to the SemEval-2016 Task 3 “Community Question Answering”. The task targeted the reranking of questions and comments in real-life web fora both in English and Arabic. ConvKN combines convolutional tree kernels with convolutional neural networks and additional manually designed features including text similarity and thread specific features. For the ...

the study of the sentence and its divisions has been always a cause of difference in syntactical viewpoints among the ancient and modern arab grammarians. ibn hesham sees three divisions for the arabic sentence: the noun sentence, the verb sentence and the adverb sentence. the adverb sentence in his view is that in which a time or place adverb or a prepositional phrase is the predicate proceede...

In this paper we present initial results on parsing Arabic using treebank-based parsers and automatic LFG f-structure annotation methodologies. The Arabic Annotation Algorithm (A) (Tounsi et al., 2009) exploits the rich functional annotations in the Penn Arabic Treebank (ATB) (Bies and Maamouri, 2003; Maamouri and Bies, 2004) to assign LFG f-structure equations to trees. For parsing, we modify ...

Translation debates have continued to be passionately argued. The study of the connection between philosophy and translation on one hand ambiguity in other both been growing. is unavoidable inevitable. Notwithstanding, philosophers not tackled question directly; general has indirectly by some philosophers. Ambiguity a fertile field investigate. written sentences problematic since they are trans...

A language is a communication tool that has many functions. In academic writing, performs certain functions, such as providing information, analyzing, comparing, and categorizing. Quality writing should show proper educational function through accurate appropriate language. This study investigated functions in Arabic research articles. based on several issues, the weaknesses of students researc...

Sentence and text comprehension is known to be difficult for orally-trained individuals with hearing impairment. This study explored the comprehension of several syntactic structures that are especially difficult for them, and may lead to considerable comprehension difficulties. Ten structures derived by Wh-movement were tested, some of them for the first time in hearing-impairment: 5 types of ...