OBJECTIVES to evaluate the reliability and discriminant validity of Arabic translation of the Medication Adherence Report Scale (MARS) and the Beliefs about Medication Questionnaire-specific (BMQ-specific). METHODS Having developed Arabic translations of the study instruments, a cross-sectional study was carried out between March and October 2015 in two multidisciplinary governmental hospital...

arabic language has etperienced many threats from the very time of the advent of islam up to now. these threats are doubled in the modern time. among these threats we can refer to the we of colloquialism or writing in latin alphabets forwhich somer have reactrd positively. specially in chatting. the output of this process haslead to creation of a language called .the language of chat. microsaft...

The present paper describes the experience gained at LDC in the collection and transcription of conversational dialectal Arabic. The paper will cover the following: (a) Arabic language background; (b) objectives. principles, and methodological choices of dialectal Arabic transcription, (c) design features of LDC‟s „Arabic MultiDialectal Transcription Tool‟ (AMADAT) and metalanguage transcriptio...

The computational handling of Modern Standard Arabic is a challenge in the field of natural language processing due to its highly rich morphology. However, several authors have pointed out that the Arabic morphological system is in fact extremely regular. The existing Arabic morphological analyzers have exploited this regularity to variable extent, yet we believe there is still some scope for i...

AMONG THE hoard of manuscripts that found their way at the end of the last century from the depository ("genizah") ofan ancient Cairo Synagogue to different libraries of the West, many hundreds of medical writings are to be found. The largest collection of these manuscripts, which range from tiny fragments to complete works, is preserved in the Cambridge University Library. The majority of thes...

BACKGROUND Suicide rates generally increase with age. A recent cross-national study, using one-year cross-sectional data on suicide rates identified regional and cross-national patterns for elderly suicide rates. However, findings from studies using one-year cross-sectional data on suicide rates may be open to bias because of random year on year fluctuations in elderly suicide rates. METHODS ...

To date, majority of research for Arabic Named Entity Recognition (NER) addresses the task for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and mainly focuses on the newswire genre. Despite some common characteristics between MSA and Dialectal Arabic (DA), the significant differences between the two language varieties hinder such MSA specific systems from solving NER for Dialectal Arabic. In this paper, we pre...