using the narrative poetry to express human and social concerns is one of the commonalities between nima yooshij and khalil matran, the modern persian and arab poets. lots of nima’s poems benefit the narrative aspects. khilil matran is also of the arab poets who have imported the narrative aspects in modern arabic poetry. based on the method of comparative literature, this study has being accom...

mahmoud taymour (1894-1973) is one of the great contemporary arab fiction writers, who has contributed a lot to the arabic literature. he was a pioneer of the modern arabic novel and short story and he was called the father of contemporary arabic fiction. one of his most important works is shams and layl which is a real travelogue mixed with the writer’s wondrous fantasy. in this paper the auth...

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the formal language in most Arabic countries. Arabic Dialects (AD) or daily language differs from MSA especially in social media communication. However, most Arabic social media texts have mixed forms and many variations especially between MSA and AD. This paper aims to bridge the gap between MSA and AD by providing a framework for the translation of texts of soc...

This paper provides a novel model for English/Arabic Query Translation to search Arabic text, and then expands the Arabic query to handle Arabic OCR-Degraded Text. This includes detection and translation of word collocations, translating single words, transliterating names, and disambiguating translation and transliteration through different approaches. It also expands the query with the expect...

traditionalists of european literature in the sixteenth century ad, were trying to restore that literary heritage due to technical and human theme of the ancient greek literature since modernists began to confront the traditionalists by the the end of the seventeenth century and invited them to avoid old formats and to define literature and poetry in another way. since then, persian and arabic ...

The many differences between Dialectal Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) pose a challenge to the majority of Arabic natural language processing tools, which are designed for MSA. In this paper, we retarget an existing state-of-the-art MSA morphological tagger to Egyptian Arabic (ARZ). Our evaluation demonstrates that our ARZ morphology tagger outperforms its MSA variant on ARZ input in te...

Nowadays, sentiment analysis research is widely applied in a variety of applications such as marketing and politics. Several studies on the Arabic sentiment analysis have been carried out in recent years. These studies mainly focus on Modern Standard Arabic among which few studies have investigated the case of Arab dialects, in this case, Egyptian, Jordanian, and Khaliji. In this paper, we prop...

We demonstrate the feasibility of using unsupervised morphological segmentation for dialects of Arabic, which are poor in linguistics resources. Our experiments using a Qatari Arabic to English machine translation system show that unsupervised segmentation helps to improve the translation quality as compared to using no segmentation or to using ATB segmentation, which was especially designed fo...