Clustering words is a widely used technique in statistical natural language processing. It requires syntactic, semantic, and contextual features. Especially, semantic clustering is gaining a lot of interest. It consists in grouping a set of words expressing the same idea or sharing the same semantic properties. In this paper, we present a new method to integrate semantic classes in a Statistica...

In morphologically rich languages such as Arabic, the abundance of word forms resulting from increased morpheme combinations is significantly greater than for languages with fewer inflected forms (Kirchhoff et al., 2006). This exacerbates the out-of-vocabulary (OOV) problem. Test set words are more likely to be unknown, limiting the effectiveness of the model. The goal of this study is to use t...

The aim of this article is to describe the process of determining the inflectional group using P systems with replications. In this process firstly the sets of endings of the same length are constructed, to which inflectional models are put into correspondence. Based on these endings the inflectional model for arbitrary word is determined.

Numerous studies on Arabic linguistics make reference to the phonological word (PW) as a constituent that serves domain for various phenomena, however, there is no clear and precise definition in literature of what actually constitutes PW whether it consists just bare morphological stem or includes affixes well. The purpose this paper gain better understanding status Najdi (NA), variety spoken ...

Extracting word roots in Arabic language is very problematic due to the specific morphological and structural changes in the language. To address this problem, several techniques have been proposed. This paper continues the problem of identifying and exploiting relationship amongst Arabic letters for Arabic root extraction begun in [1]. Eight different rules that detect the root letters accordi...

Our earlier work, on incongruent audiovisual segments embedded in English wordand phrasestimuli, showed that McGurk fusion is sensitive to the phonological context of a segment. In this paper we describe the preparation and early testing of Arabic word stimuli with an incongruent phonetic segment. We confirm that in the context of Arabic words, fusion similar to that in English words still occu...