one of the greatest scholars related to islamic-arabic culture is ibn-tufail whose authority in the field of philosophy of science and medicine and intellectual activities is worthy of praise .however, none of his works remained except his odes in medicine and hayy-ibn-yaghzan dissertation. the latter is the most important of his works ,containing his deep philosophical thoughts and applying fa...

In TREC-10 the Berkeley group participated only in the English-Arabic cross-language retrieval (CLIR) track. One Arabic monolingual run and four English-Arabic cross-language runs were submitted. Our approach to the cross-language retrieval was to translate the English topics into Arabic using online EnglishArabic bilingual dictionaries and machine translation software. The five official runs a...

A comparison between the performance of Latin and Arabic handwritten digits recognition problems is presented. The performance of ten different classifiers is tested on two similar Arabic and Latin handwritten digits databases. The analysis shows that Arabic handwritten digits recognition problem is easier than that of Latin digits. This is because the interclass difference in case of Latin dig...

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Traditional medicine mainly comprises of Indian Ayurveda, Arabic Unaini medicine and traditional Chinese medicine. In Asia and Latin America, populations continue to use traditional medicine as a result of historical circumstances and cultural beliefs. Traditional medicine accounts for around 40% of all health care delivered in China. Up to 80%: Of the population in Africa uses traditional medi...

In this paper, we present a generic Optical Character Recognition system for Arabic script languages called Nabocr. Nabocr uses OCR approaches specific for Arabic script recognition. Performing recognition on Arabic script text is relatively more difficult than Latin text due to the nature of Arabic script, which is cursive and context sensitive. Moreover, Arabic script has different writing st...

As more and more Arabic textual information becomes available through the Web in homes and businesses, via Internet and Intranet services, there is an urgent need for technologies and tools to process the relevant information. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an Information Extraction task that has become an integral part of many other Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as Machine T...

This paper presents a novel holistic technique for classifying and retrieving Arabic handwritten text documents. The retrieval of Arabic handwritten documents is performed in several steps. First, the Arabic handwritten document images are segmented into words, and then each word is segmented into its connected parts. Second, several features are extracted from these connected parts and then co...

The rise in Arabic usage within various social media platforms, and notably in Twitter, has led to a growing interest in building Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications capable of dealing with informal colloquial Arabic, as it is the most commonly used form of Arabic in social media. The unique characteristics of the Arabic language make the extraction of Arabic named entities a ...

In this paper, we present recognition of handwritten characters of Arabic script. Arabic is now the 6 most spoken language in the world and is spoken by more than 200 million people worldwide. The 7 Century A.D., Arabic started to spread to the Middle East as many people started to convert to Islam. During this time of religious conversions, Arabic replaced many South Arabian languages, most of...