In the Arab world, while Modern Standard Arabic is commonly used in formal written context, on sites like Youtube, people are increasingly using Dialectal Arabic, the language for everyday use to comment on a video and interact with the community. These user-contributed comments along with the video and user attributes, offer a rich source of multi-dialectal Arabic sentences and expressions fro...

In this paper, we describe the first tool that detects the semantic relation between Arabic named entities, henceforth RelANE. We use various supervised learning techniques to predict the word or the sequence of terms that can highlight one or more semantic relationship between two Arabic named entities. For each word in the sentence, we use its morphological, contextual and semantic features o...

In the Arab world, while Modern Standard Arabic is commonly used in formal written context, on sites like Youtube, people are increasingly using Dialectal Arabic, the language for everyday use to comment on a video and interact with the community. These user-contributed comments along with the video and user attributes, offer a rich source of multi-dialectal Arabic sentences and expressions fro...

Listening conditions affect bilinguals’ speech perception, but relatively little is known about the effect of the combination of several degrading listening conditions. We studied the combined effect of speech rate and background noise on bilinguals’ speech perception in their L1 and L2. Speech perception of twenty Israeli university students, native speakers of Arabic (L1), with Hebrew as L2, ...

We present the first algorithms to automatically identify explicit discourse connectives and the relations they signal for Arabic text. First we show that, for Arabic news, most adjacent sentences are connected via explicit connectives in contrast to English, making the treatment of explicit discourse connectives for Arabic highly important. We also show that explicit Arabic discourse connectiv...

Abstract Machine translation (MT) has made significant strides and reached accuracy levels that often make the post-editing (PE) of MT output a viable alternative to manual translation. However, despite professional translators increasingly considering PE as valid stage in their workflow, little been done investigate for purpose informing training PE. Against this background, present project fo...

mohamed javad bahmanyar an iranian scholar and scientist (j330 ah/1296 a.h) has com posed apoem in rajas meter reqarding arabic sentences and it's rinds as a completion for the al , alfeya of ibn malek the andolusian. this wniier has began with an introdue tion concerning persiam learned men and writers and thair role in the field of arabic researches in the past and future. their presents...

The purpose of this study was to find out the intonation patterns interrogative sentences for students in class 10 MAS Al-Hikmah, Soe, Nusa Tenggara Timur, their acceptance by Arabic linguists, and learning speaking skills (mahārat al-kalām). This research is a case that included qualitative descriptive research. data collection technique test with help Praat application. were analyzed investig...