Arabic on social media has all the properties of any language on social media that make it tough for natural language processing, plus some specific problems. These include diglossia, the use of an alternative alphabet (Roman), and code switching with foreign languages. In this paper, we present a system which can process Arabic written in Roman alphabet (“Arabizi”). It identifies whether each ...

Building dialogues systems interaction has recently gained considerable attention, but most of the resources and systems built so far are tailored to English and other Indo-European languages. The need for designing systems for other languages is increasing such as Arabic language. For this reasons, there are more interest for Arabic dialogue acts classification task because it a key player in ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to gain an in-depth understanding of Arabic-speaking mothers views on the usefulness of existing oral health education leaflets aimed at young children and also to record their views on the tailored versions of these leaflets. METHODS This qualitative study was nested within a large ongoing birth cohort study in South Western Sydney, Australia. Arabic-...

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Sentiment analysis research has predominantly been on English texts. Thus there exist many sentiment resources for English, but less so for other languages. Approaches to improve sentiment analysis in a resource-poor focus language include: (a) translate the focus language text into a resource-rich language such as English, and apply a powerful English sentiment analysis system on the text, and...

Research and experimentation using Arabic WordNet in the field of information retrieval are relatively new. It is limited compared to the research that has been done using Princeton WordNet. This work attempts to study the impact of Arabic WordNet on the performance of Arabic information retrieval. The authors extend Lucene with Arabic WordNet to expand user’s queries. The major contribution of...

OBJECTIVES To develop Arabic versions of English language questionnaires to estimate morningness/eveningness and sleep variables. METHODS We translated the Composite scale of morningness (CSM) and the sleep timing questionnaire (STQ) [with added siesta questions] into Arabic; the Arabic versions were then back translated. The revised Arabic and the original English versions were next administ...

Arabic machine translation has been taking place in machine translation projects in recent years. This study concentrates on the translation of Arabic text to its equivalent in Malay language. The problem of this research is the syntactic and morphological differences between Arabic and Malay adjective sentences. The main aim of this study is to design and develop Arabic-Malay machine translati...

Morphological analysis of Arabic words allows decreasing the storage requirements of the Arabic dictionaries, more efficient encoding of diacritical Arabic text, faster spelling and efficient Optical character recognition. All these factors allow efficient storage and archival of multilingual digital libraries that include Arabic texts. This paper presents a lossless compression algorithm based...

Many Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval methods are based on the extensive use of text corpora. The credibility of the results can be heavily influenced by the underlying corpus quality. Much research has been utilizing Arabic corpora into various tasks of Arabic Information Processing. In this paper we discuss a suite of metrics that can be used to ascertain the quality of A...