The volume of information available on the Web is increasing rapidly. The need for systems that can automatically summarize documents is becoming ever more desirable. For this reason, text summarization has quickly grown into a major research area as illustrated by the DUC and TAC conference series. Summarization systems for Arabic are however still not as sophisticated and as reliable as those...

Natural Language Processing Working Together with Arabic and Islamic Studies is a 2-year project funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) to study prosodicsyntactic mark-up in the Quran (Atwell et al 2013). Tajwīd or correct Quranic recitation is very important in Islam. The original insight informing this project is to view tajwīd mark-up in the Quran as addi...

AbstrAct: With the dramatic increasing of electronic Arabic content, the text compression techniques will play a major role in several domains and applications such as search engines, data archiving, searching and retrieval from huge databases. Mainly the combination of compression and indexing techniques allows the interesting possibility to work directly on the compressed textual files or dat...

The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have chosen working on the PR system to be our first step to pursue our aim because being the core component and its quality will affect directly the performance of the QA system. JAVA Information Retrieval System (JIRS) is ...

The number of Free Online Machine Translation (FOMT) users witnessed a spectacular growth since 1994. FOMT systems change the aspects of machine translation (MT) and the mass translated materials using a wide range of natural languages and machine translation systems. Hundreds of millions of people use these FOMT systems to translate the holy Quran (Al-Qurʾān) verses from the Arabic language to...

Off-line recognition of text play a significant role in several application such as the automatic sorting of postal mail or editing old documents. It is the ability of the computer to distinguish characters and words. Automatic off-line recognition of text can be divided into the recognition of printed and handwritten characters. Off-line Arabic handwriting recognition still faces great challen...

This paper presents a comprehensive NLP system by Melingo that has been recently developed for Arabic, based on Morfix – an operational formerly developed highly successful comprehensive Hebrew NLP system. The system discussed includes modules for morphological analysis, context sensitive lemmatization, vocalization, text-to-phoneme conversion, and syntactic-analysis-based prosody (intonation) ...

Corresponding Author: Suhad A. Yousif Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Beirut Arab University, Lebanon Email: [email protected] Abstract: Arabic text classification methods have emerged as a natural result of the existence of a massive amount of varied textual information (written in Arabic language) on the web. In most text classification processes, featu...

This study investigated the perception of American-English (AE) vowels and consonants by young adults who were either (a) early Arabic-English bilinguals whose native language was Arabic or (b) native speakers of the English dialects spoken in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where both groups were studying. In a closed-set format, participants were asked to identify 12 AE vowels presented in /h...

Text summarization task is still an active area of research in natural language preprocessing. Several methods that have been proposed in the literature to solve this task have presented mixed success. However, such methods developed in a multi-document Arabic text summarization are based on extractive summary and none of them is oriented to abstractive summary. This is due to the challenges of...