The process of digitization in libraries of Pakistan is at a very initial stage. Pakistan is lagging behind developed countries due to many reasons such as: funding, computer illiteracy and expertise in digitization. However, some institutions like the Higher Education Commission, the Punjab University Library, the National Library of Pakistan and some private organizations are doing digitizati...

The cursive and ligature nature of the Arabic language make the segmentation of words into individual characters a difficult task. Despite attempts to apply methods for cursive Latin and other languages to Arabic, it is generally insufficient to segment Arabic text. This paper proposes a new segmentation algorithm for handwritten Arabic text and the main idea consist of segmenting the word into...

Dialectal Arabic (DA) is significantly different from the Arabic language taught in schools and used in written communication and formal speech (broadcast news, religion, politics, etc.). There are many existing researches in the field of Arabic language Sentiment Analysis (SA); however, they are generally restricted to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or some dialects of economic or political inte...

A phonetic dictionary is an essential component of a speech recognition system or a speech synthesis system. Our work targets the generation of an automatic pronunciation dictionary for the Tunisian Arabic, in particular in the field of rail transport. To do this, we created two tools of phonetic vowelized and unvowelized words in the Tunisian Arabic. The proposed method to automatically genera...

Recently, Question Answering (QA) has been one of the main focus of natural language processing research. However, Arabic Question Answering is still not in the mainstream. The challenges of the Arabic language and the lack of resources have made it difficult to provide Arabic QA systems with high accuracy. While low accuracies may be accepted for general purpose systems, it is critical in some...

The last two decades witnessed some advances in the development of an Arabic character recognition (CR) system. Arabic CR faces technical problems not encountered in any other language that make Arabic CR systems achieve relatively low accuracy and retards establishing them as market products. We propose the basic stages towards a system that attacks the problem of recognizing online Arabic cur...

This paper describes the MIRACL statistical Machine Translation system and the improvements that were developed during the IWSLT 2010 evaluation campaign. We participated to the Arabic to English BTEC tasks using a phrase-based statistical machine translation approach. In this paper, we first discuss some challenges in translating from Arabic to English and we explore various techniques to impr...

This paper addresses the problem of the development of Arabic Natural Language Interface for Information System Design. Most Arabic systems focus on processing Arabic text for machine translation or information retrieval. We present in this paper some aspects for identify Entities and Relationships from a description of the application domain given with a subset of the Arabic Natural Language. ...

In this paper we present a system for document understanding and for recognition of printed Arabic text. Arabic characters must be segmented before recognition. We overcome the problem of segmentation by our proposed ORAN system (Offline Recognition of Arabic characters and Numerals). ORAN is based on a method called Modified MCR. Using a stroke index, we can parse compound document images into...

Since the advent of the Semantic Web in the late 90’s, many Web applications were created to benefit from the capabilities provided by Semantic Web technologies. These capabilities include intelligent reasoning over data, semantic search and data interoperability. However, most Semantic Web technologies are dedicated to processing Latin family scripts, thus, an apparent lack of Arabic script su...