In this paper, we describe the methodological procedures and issues that emerged from the development of a pilot Levantine Arabic Treebank (LATB) at the Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) and its use at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Center for Language and Speech Processing workshop on Parsing Arabic Dialects (PAD). This pilot, consisting of morphological and syntactic annotation of approxim...

Urdu is a challenging language because of, first, its Perso-Arabic script and second, its morphological system having inherent grammatical forms and vocabulary of Arabic, Persian and the native languages of South Asia. This paper describes an implementation of the Urdu language as a software API, and we deal with orthography, morphology and the extraction of the lexicon. The morphology is imple...

Arabic vocabulary learning is in dire need for additional teaching and learning aids, especially with the integration of advanced multimedia application such as digital or online games. This article reports on the findings of a study on the implementation of an online Arabic vocabulary learning games prototype among teenage learners in the Centre for Foundation Studies (CFS), International Isla...

Arabic is a language of rich and complex morphology. The nature and peculiarity of Arabic make its morphological and phonological rules confusing for second language learners (SLLs). The conjugation of Arabic verbs is central to the formulation of an Arabic sentence because of its richness of form and meaning. In this paper, we address issues related to the morphological analysis of ill formed ...

According to researchers of manuscripts, the treatise of Alhendeba is certainly a work of Avecinna’s own writing. This treatise, written in Arabic, is Avecinna’s reply to an inquisition presented to him, questioning the reason chicory (Alhendeba) should not be washed at the time of consumption. Avicenna answers using the Prophet Mohammed’s narration about chicory and adds his own scientific exp...

DIRA is a query expansion tool that generates search terms in Standard Arabic and/or its dialects when provided with queries in English or Standard Arabic. The retrieval of dialectal Arabic text has recently become necessary due to the increase of dialectal content on social media. DIRA addresses the challenges of retrieving information in Arabic dialects, which have significant linguistic diff...

High-level languages and very high-level languages have been developed to simplify programming. But, programming is still hard for many people especially those from disciplines that are not computer-related. Facile programming implies the modification of programming languages to be easily learnt, remembered, and used by programmers from different disciplines. This is achieved by studying and tr...