The Arabic discourse-pragmatic feature ya3ni occurs frequently in natural interactional settings. Several studies have reported that (lit. ‘I mean/it means’) has developed a wide range of functions many spoken varieties such as Egyptian (Elshimi, 1992; 1993; Marmorstein, 2016, 2021a), Gulf (Owens & Rockwood, 2008), Libyan (Gaddafi, 1990), and Syrian (Alkhalil, 2005; Habib, 2021). Although t...

This article aims to tackle the problems of translating medical terms from English Arabic, particularly related COVID-19 pandemic. It first examines terminology in English, considering how such are coined or created, and later sheds light on importance neologism discourse. Although maintains itself as lingua franca science medicine, many researchers have examined into Arabic creating new equiva...

Errors in machine translations of English-Iraqi Arabic dialogues were analyzed at two different points in the systems‟ development using HTER methods to identify errors and human annotations to refine TER annotations. Although the frequencies of errors in the more mature systems were lower, the proportions of error types exhibited little change. Results include high frequencies of pronoun error...

In this paper, we investigate whether the social roles of dialogue participants can be recognized through the social actions performed by the participant in their interactions with others in the group. Specifically we focus on determining if a participant is the leader of the group. We decompose the problem into identifying the social goals for participant discourse segments. These social goals...