In TREC 2002 the Berkeley group participated only in the English-Arabic cross-language retrieval (CLIR) track. One Arabic monolingual run and three English-Arabic cross-language runs were submitted. Our approach to the crosslanguage retrieval was to translate the English topics into Arabic using online English-Arabic machine translation systems. The four official runs are named as BKYMON, BKYCL...

Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly is perhaps Butler’s most relevant work for geographers, urbanists, and scholars of social movements. Drawing from contemporary popular uprisings, assemblies and occupations–including Occupy Wall Street, Tahrir Square, Gezi Park, Black Lives Matter and the Indignados–Butler engages with political philosophers ranging from Arendt to Agamben to Adorno...

The political impact—or rather the lack thereof—following revolutionary uprisings in Middle East has been well documented [...]

! The Judeo-Arabic languages comprise a set of dialects spoken and written by Jewish communities living in Arab countries, mainly during the middle ages. Judeo-Arabic is typically written in Hebrew letters, enriched with various diacritic marks. The Judeo-Arabic spoken and written by any particular Jewish community is similar to the Arabic dialect used by their local Muslim community. In additi...

Abstract Ten years on since the Arab uprisings we are in a position to assess how nexus between knowledge, discourse and practice had bearing trajectory of protests. They represented hope change for millions Arabs region, but what extent was that case onlookers Europe US, did western events Middle East matter? While toppling longstanding dictators met with jubilation by populations, it converse...

A comparison of F0 alignment values was carried out for three Arabic dialects (Moroccan Arabic, Kuwaiti Arabic and Yemeni Arabic) using five speakers from each dialect. Clear differences found in alignment enable separation of Moroccan Arabic from the two other dialects: a) values of the F0 valley differed significantly, with Moroccan Arabic showing a later synchronisation than Kuwaiti Arabic a...