This paper investigates the unique pharyngeal and uvular consonants of Arabic from the automatic speech recognition (ASR) point of view. Comparisons of the recognition error rates for these phonemes are analyzed in five experiments that involve different combinations of native and non-native Arabic speakers. The most three confusing consonants for every investigated consonant are uncovered and ...

This paper addresses issues related to employing logic-based semantic composition as a meaning representation for Arabic within a unification-based syntax-semantics interface. Since semantic representation has to be compositional on the level of semantic processing λ-calculus based on Discourse Representation Theory can be utilized as a helpful and practical technique for the semantic construct...

Though much research has been conducted on Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA) during the last decade, little work has focused on Arabic. In this work, we focus on SSA for both Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) news articles and dialectal Arabic microblogs from Twitter. We showcase some of the challenges associated with SSA on microblogs. We adopted a random graph walk approach to extend the A...

We propose an enhanced Part-of-Speech (POS) tagger of Semitic languages that treats Modern Standard Arabic (henceforth Arabic) and Modern Hebrew (henceforth Hebrew) using the same probabilistic model and architectural setting. We start out by porting an existing Hidden Markov Model POS tagger for Hebrew to Arabic by exchanging a morphological analyzer for Hebrew with Buckwalter's (2002) morphol...

This presentation is primarily a demonstration of a working statistical machine translation system which translates Modern Standard Arabic into English.

Purpose The purpose of this research was to analyze the unaccusative verb in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) within framework MP order answer question: How does single argument an verb, that carries theme theta role and is generated object position, receive a nominative case without moving [Spec, vP], which base subject position? Design/methodology/approach analysis paper based on Minimalist Progr...