The morphology of the Arabic language is rich and complex; words are inflected to express variations in tense-aspect, person, number, and gender, while they may also appear with clitics attached to express possession on nouns, objects on verbs and prepositions, and conjunctions. Furthermore, Arabic script allows the omission of short vowel diacritics. For the Arabic language learner trying to u...

Functional Arabic Morphology is a formulation of the Arabic inflectional system seeking the working interface between morphology and syntax. ElixirFM is its high-level implementation that reuses and extends the Functional Morphology library for Haskell. Inflection and derivation are modeled in terms of paradigms, grammatical categories, lexemes and word classes. The computation of analysis or g...

The authors investigated how 2-digit Arabic numerals are named by looking at the effects of masked primes on the naming latencies. Target numerals were named faster when prime and target shared a digit at the same position (e.g., the target 28 primed by 18 and 21). In contrast, naming latencies were slower when prime and target shared 1 or 2 digits at non-corresponding places (e.g., the target ...

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...

Literature examination shows that information search engines in Arabic are few compared to those available in English and other languages. Additionally, search engines face many problems when programmed in the Arabic language, including difficulty and uncertainty. Employing Genetic Algorithm within the search scheme to improve performance and exactness and tackle issues with non-accurateness of...

This paper summarizes our recent progress in improving the automatic transcription of Arabic broadcast audio data, and some efforts to address the challenges of the broadcast conversational speech. Our efforts are aimed at improving the acoustic, pronunciation and language models taking into account specificities of the Arabic language. In previous work we demonstrated that explicit modeling of...

Social networks and users’ interactions are distinct features for the current Web. They constitute a fundamental part of Web 2.0, where people produce, disseminate, and consume information in new interactive forms where users are not only passive information receivers. Social media succeed to attract a large portion of online users, which explains the explosive growth of social media in terms o...

the diwan school is one of the literary schools that emerged in contemporary arabic literature and had a tremendous role in directing arabic literature toward innovation, keeping it in touch with modern literary evolution worldwide in the twentieth century. however, the innovation that this school spread is by large of non-arabic roots and is chiefly based on such foreign literatures as english...

Three million ancient Arabic manuscripts are jealously preserved in libraries, in conservation institutions and in private homes. A non-consulted document is like a dead document—its fate is related to its consultation by users. The access to this kind of document is very difficult because of two main reasons: first, the fragile state of the manuscripts that make them easily degradable, necessa...

Arabic language is very rich in derivations, vocabulary, and grammatical structures. The problem of determining the correct meaning of a word in a non-vowelized Arabic sentence is not a trivial task since Arabic is very rich in the polysemy phenomena. This paper attempts to reveal the word sense ambiguity, by building a semantic parser powered by a statistical semantic analyzer, which may aid i...