Khaled Shaalan Azza Abdel Monem, Ahmed Rafea, Hoda Baraka The Institute of Informatics, The British University in Dubai, P O Box 502216, Dubai, UAE Honorary Fellow, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK Central Lab. For Agricultural Expert Systems (CLAES), Argiculture Research Center, P O Box: 100 Dokki, Giza, Egypt Faculty of Computers and Information, Cairo University 5 Ahmed Zew...

Automatic Text Summarization has received a great deal of attention in the past couple of decades. It has gained a lot of interest especially with the proliferation of the Internet and the new technologies. Arabic as a language still lacks research in the field of Information Retrieval. In this paper, we explore lexical cohesion using lexical chains for an extractive summarization system for Ar...

Arabic is a Semitic language that is rich in its morphology and syntax. The very numerous and complex grammar rules of the language could be confusing even for Arabic native speakers. Many Arabic intelligent computerassisted language-learning (ICALL) systems have neither deep error analysis nor sophisticated error handling. In this paper, we report an attempt at developing an error analyzer and...

We present in this paper PADIC, a Parallel Arabic DIalect Corpus we built from scratch, then we conducted experiments on crossdialect Arabic machine translation. PADIC is composed of dialects from both the Maghreb and the Middle-East. Each dialect has been aligned with Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Three dialects from Maghreb are concerned by this study: two from Algeria, one from Tunisia, and ...

One of the specificities Arabic is agreement in grammar, which includes several language units. The parts that correspond to other units are gender, numbers, and cases. Conformity also found definiteness, personal pronoun, from phrases sentences. Deciphering sentence its constituent structure can show suitability relationship between This parsing model equivalent I'rāb grammar. will be applied ...

This study aims to examine the extent which alternation between common negation patterns of verbless clauses in Ammani Arabic, namely [mu] and [miʃ], is socially constrained. Gender, age, level education region (West Amman vs. East Amman) were investigated this regard. Twenty-five hours audio-recorded sociolinguistic interviews with 32 speakers who born raised conducted. After using computer so...

An implementation of a non-structural Example-Based Machine Translation system that translates sentences from Arabic to English, using a parallel corpus aligned at the sentence level, is described. Source-language synonyms were derived automatically and used to help locate potential translation examples for fragments of a given input sentence. The smaller the parallel corpus, the greater the co...

We achieved a state of the art performance in statistical machine translation by using a large number of features with an online large-margin training algorithm. The millions of parameters were tuned only on a small development set consisting of less than 1K sentences. Experiments on Arabic-toEnglish translation indicated that a model trained with sparse binary features outperformed a conventio...

We present a method to transliterate names in the framework of end-to-end statistical machine translation. The system is trained to learn when to transliterate. For Arabic to English MT, we developed and trained a transliterator on a bitext of 7 million sentences and Google’s English terabyte ngrams and achieved better name translation accuracy than 3 out of 4 professional translators. The pape...

We present some similarity and distance measures between intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFSs). Thus, we propose two semi-metric distance measures between IFSs. The measures are applied to classification of shapes and handwritten Arabic sentences described with intuitionistic fuzzy information. The experimental results permitted to do a comparative analysis between intuitionistic fuzzy similarity an...