Awards for distinguished teaching during the 1971-72 academic year, made possible by funds presented annually to the University by the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation, have been presented to eight faculty members. Candidates for the awards are nominated by faculty and students, and screened by a faculty-student committee on the basis of their teaching and scholarship, as well as in...

BACKGROUND Written Medicine Information (WMI) is one of the sources that patients use to obtain information concerning medicine. This paper aims to assess the readability of two types of WMIs in Arabic language based on vocabulary use and sentence structure using a panel of experts and consumers. METHODS This is a descriptive study. Two different types of materials, including the online text ...

Most tools and resources developed for natural language processing of Arabic are designed for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and perform terribly on Arabic dialects, such as Egyptian Arabic. Egyptian Arabic differs from MSA phonologically, morphologically and lexically and has no standardized orthography. We present a linguistically accurate, large-scale morphological analyzer for Egyptian Arabic...

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...

Building a system to extract Arabic named entities is a complex task due to the ambiguity and structure of Arabic text. Previous approaches that have tackled the problem of Arabic named entity recognition relied heavily on Arabic parsers and taggers combined with a huge set of gazetteers and sometimes large training sets to solve the ambiguity problem. But while these approaches are applicable ...

This paper describes an effort toward building Arabic cheque databases for research in recognition of handwritten Arabic cheques. Databases of Arabic legal amounts, Arabic subwords, courtesy amounts, Indian digits, and Arabic cheques are provided. This paper highlights the characteristics of the Arabic language and presents the various steps that have been completed to achieve this goal includi...

In this article we present Curras, the first morphologically annotated corpus of the Palestinian Arabic dialect. Palestinian Arabic is one of the many primarily spoken dialects of the Arabic language. Arabic dialects are generally under-resourced compared to Modern Standard Arabic, the primarily written and official form of Arabic. We start in the article with a background description that situ...

The present paper describes the experience gained at LDC in the collection and transcription of conversational dialectal Arabic. The paper will cover the following: (a) Arabic language background; (b) objectives. principles, and methodological choices of dialectal Arabic transcription, (c) design features of LDC‟s „Arabic MultiDialectal Transcription Tool‟ (AMADAT) and metalanguage transcriptio...

Establishing in Baghdad, a recently founded capital of Abbasid caliphs, of é Òom Ì P@ X Dāru l-H. ikmat (Abode of Wisdom) by caliph Ma’mūn who ruled during 813-833, was destined to play a pivotal role in the development of Mathematics in the lands conquered by muslim armies. Abode of Wisdomwas a sort of translation academy patronized by the caliph and wealthy families from his entourage. Works ...

ibn abi sadiq neishaboori  was the iranian philosopher and medical scientist in the fifth century ah. in addition to writing a number of books in traditional medicine, he wrote commentary explanations on important books of famous greek and roman physicians, hippocrates and galen. because of this, he was called hippocrates the second.ibn abi sadiqwas the student of avicennaand the teacher of jor...