Arabic is a highly inflectional language, with a rich morphology, relatively free word order, and two types of sentences: nominal and verbal. Arabic natural language processing in general is still underdeveloped and Arabic natural language generation (NLG) is even less developed. In particular, Arabic natural language generation from Interlingua was only investigated using template-based approa...

In TREC-10 the Berkeley group participated only in the English-Arabic cross-language retrieval (CLIR) track. One Arabic monolingual run and four English-Arabic cross-language runs were submitted. Our approach to the cross-language retrieval was to translate the English topics into Arabic using online EnglishArabic bilingual dictionaries and machine translation software. The five official runs a...

The main aim of this thesis is to build adaptive language models of Arabic text that can achieve the best compression performance over existing models. Prediction by partial matching (PPM) language models has been the best performing over the other adaptive language models through the past three decades in term of compression performance. In order to get such performance for Arabic text, the ri...

in the earliest centuries of islamic period, arabic language was spread in iran by accelerated rate and over time it has been converted into iranian political, scientific, and literary language in the field of islamic civilization. amidst, many of iranian intellectual and literate people created some literary works in arabic so that an all-out arabic verse market was highly boosting in iran, pa...

The NEMLAR project is a European Commission supported project with partners from the EU and from Arabic speaking countries in the Mediterranean region. The project aims at surveying the stat-of-the artof language resources and tools for Arabic in the region, at developing a BLARK definition for Arabic, and at starting development of language resources or updating of existing language resources....

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND READING IN BILINGUAL ENGLISH-ARABIC CHILDREN by Lama K. Farran This dissertation examined the relationship between language and reading in bilingual English-Arabic children. The dissertation followed a two chapter Review and Research Format. Chapter One presents a review of research that examined the relationship between oral language and reading developmen...

In general, word stemming is one of the most important factors that affect the performance of information retrieval systems. The optimization issues of Arabic light stemming algorithm as a main component in natural language processing and information retrieval for Arabic language are based on root-pattern schemes. Since Arabic language is a highly inflected language and has a complex morphologi...