This paper proposes a framework to automate the parsing ( ا&'إ ب ) of Arabic language sentences in general, although it focuses on the simple verbal sentences but it can be extended to any Arabic language sentence. The proposed system is divided into two separated phases which are lexical analysis and syntax analysis. Lexical phase analyses the words, finds its originals and roots, separates it...

We present OSMAN (Open Source Metric for Measuring Arabic Narratives) a novel open source Arabic readability metric and tool. It allows researchers to calculate readability for Arabic text with and without diacritics. OSMAN is a modified version of the conventional readability formulas such as Flesch and Fog. In our work we introduce a novel approach towards counting short, long and stress syll...

The paper proposes a treatment of relative sentences within the framework of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG). Relative sentences are considered as a rather delicate linguistic phenomenon and not explored enough by Arabic researchers. In an attempt to deal with this phenomenon, we propose in this paper a study about different forms of relative clauses and the interaction of relatives...

Arabic Machine Translation (MT) has been widely studied recently. Any Arabic to English Machine Translation (MT) system should be capable of dealing with word order and agreement requirements, agreement rules are crucial for the generation of sentences in the target language. They also serve as rules for the ordering of sentence constituents. Transfer-based technique is currently one of the mos...

This work presents a system for Automatic Arabic punctuation marks. Existing approaches for automatic punctuation marks do not provide suitable performance for and do not satisfy user interests in Arabic texts. The importance and rising need to automate the correct insertion of punctuation marks in Arabic texts led to a need of specific analysis of the Arabic language to introduce approaches th...

We present a comparative analysis of relative clauses in Hindi and Arabic in the tradition of the Paninian Grammar Framework (Bharati et al., 1996b) which leads to deriving a common logical form for equivalent sentences. Parallels are drawn between the Hindi co-relative construction and resumptive pronouns in Arabic. The analysis arises from the development of lexicalised dependency grammars fo...

Abstract The Columbia Arabic Treebank (CATiB) is a database of syntactic analyses of Arabic sentences. CATiB contrasts with previous approaches to Arabic treebanking in its emphasis on faster production with some constraints on linguistic richness. Two basic ideas inspire the CATiB approach. First, CATiB avoids the annotation of redundant linguistic information that is determinable automaticall...

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...

The daily spoken variety of Arabic is often termed the colloquial or dialect form of Arabic. There are many Arabic dialects across the Arab World and within other Arabic speaking communities. These dialects vary widely from region to region and to a lesser extent from city to city in each region. The dialects are not standardized, they are not taught, and they do not have official status. Howev...