A comparison of F0 alignment values was carried out for three Arabic dialects (Moroccan Arabic, Kuwaiti Arabic and Yemeni Arabic) using five speakers from each dialect. Clear differences found in alignment enable separation of Moroccan Arabic from the two other dialects: a) values of the F0 valley differed significantly, with Moroccan Arabic showing a later synchronisation than Kuwaiti Arabic a...

Arabic Grammar, Arabic Upper Model, Arabic Gemeration. Arabic has had wellestablished theoretical studies for more than 1000 years. However, If Arabic is compared with other languages, it has received much less modern computational interest. The aim of this research work is to try to make use of some of the Arabic linguistic theories and adapt them to be used in machine processing. To start wit...

Relationship skills coaching is a kind of psychotherapy that helps people to communicate in healthier way. It with personal problems and issues such as, for example: trust, lying, respect, anger-management, communication, conflict, power struggles, abuse, jealousy, romance, intimacy, parenting, in-laws, divorce, loneliness, stress, fear, anxiety, depression, so on. Currently, relationship becom...

Many Arabic scientific debates are devoted to disputes on cancer and its causes. Scientists tend inform people about the danger of consuming being exposed carcinogens. The paper aims explore proximization strategy that Arab scientists rely construct carcinogen risk promote people’s preventive actions against intends answer main question: how does discourse employ ideological conflict risk? It i...

Unlike the written texts, discourse segmentation of the Arab oral dialogues is a challenging task that is held back in most cases by the spontaneous character of oral speech. Like any segmentation task, segmentation in minimum discursive units (UDM) aims to cut the different statements of a speech into simple proposals easily usable in subsequent treatment. The majority of the work on the Arabi...

This paper gives a detailed description of the ACT (Accuracy of Connective Translation) metric, a reference-based metric that assesses only connective translations. ACT relies on automatic word-level alignment (using GIZA++) between a source sentence and respectively the reference and candidate translations, along with other heuristics for comparing translations of discourse connectives. Using ...

Sentiment classification aims to determine whether the semantic orientation of a text is positive, negative or neutral. It can be tackled at several levels of granularity: expression or phrase level, sentence level, and document level. In the scope of this research, we are interested in the sentence and sub-sentential level classification which can provide very useful trends for information ret...

Good governance from an ethical perspective in cyberdefence policy has been seen in terms of duty and consequentialism. Yet the negotiated view of virtue ethics can also address how nation states mitigate the risks of a cyber attack to their national interests and to prepare for a cyber offence in response to an attack. A discourse analysis of the “0x Omar”-Israeli conflict of 2012, as reported...