This paper introduces SSML for using with Arabic language. SSML is part of a larger set of markup specifications for voice browsers developed through the open processes of the W3C. The essential role of the markup language is to give authors of synthesizable content a standard way to control aspects of speech output such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, rate, etc. across different synthesis-cap...

In this paper we investigate the use of rich morphology such as word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging and diacritic restoration to improve Arabic language modeling. We enrich the context by performing morphological analysis on the word history. We use neural network models to integrate this additional information, due to their ability to handle long and enriched dependencies. We experimente...

We annotate a small corpus of religious Arabic with morphological segmentation boundaries and fine-grained segment-based part of speech tags. Experiments on both segmentation and POS tagging show that the religious corpus-trained segmenter and POS tagger outperform the Arabic Treebak-trained ones although the latter is 21 times as big , which shows the need for building religious Arabic linguis...

performing translation task which converts text or speech in one Natural Language (Source Language (SL)) into another Natural Language (Target Language (TL)). The translation from Arabic to English is difficult task due to the Arabic languages are highly inflectional, rich morphology and relatively free word order. Word ordering plays an important part in the translation process. The paper prop...

elegiac poetry written about the ahlolbeit (the holy prophet’s household) in khuzestani arabic is a rich folklore source. this poetic genre is beautiful and appealing and almost comprehensible for its audience. however, it is mysteriously difficult for all to read. this often leads to misunderstandings. the incomprehensibility of khuzestani arabic may be due to different reasons. for example,...

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...

In this thesis, we present methods for using linguistically motivated information to enhance the performance of statistical machine translation (SMT). One of the advantages of the statistical approach to machine translation is that it is largely languageagnostic. Machine learning models are used to automatically learn translation patterns from data. SMT can, however, be improved by using lingui...

abstract the ancient links betweenarab and iraniannations caused the language, culture in arabic and persianliterature, to be in extensive interactions with each other; that have manifested themselves in the cultural field particularly the popular culture. the attempts made in the field of comparative literature are minimal.hence, investigating the theme of poverty in famouspoetry ofparvinetesa...