Behaviorist-Structural theory is one of the important theories in language learning. This a meeting between behavioral psychology and structuralist linguistics. The combination these two not only creates new principles views, but also has an impact on development learning, especially second languages. study aims to describe behavioralist-structural view its application Arabic research conceptua...

We carried out a study on monolingual translators with no knowledge of the source language, but aided by post-editing and the display of translation options. On Arabic-English and Chinese-English, using standard test data and current statistical machine translation systems, 10 monolingual translators were able to translate 35% of Arabic and 28% of Chinese sentences correctly on average, with so...

We present a study on sentence-level Arabic Dialect Identification using the newly developed Multidialectal Parallel Corpus of Arabic (MPCA) – the first experiments on such data. Using a set of surface features based on characters and words, we conduct three experiments with a linear Support Vector Machine classifier and a meta-classifier using stacked generalization – a method not previously a...

In this paper, we present our contribution in SemEval2016 task71: Determining Sentiment Intensity of English and Arabic Phrases, where we use web search engines for English and Arabic unsupervised sentiment intensity prediction. Our work is based, first, on a group of classic sentiment lexicons (e.g. Sentiment140 Lexicon, SentiWordNet). Second, on web search engines’ ability to find the cooccur...

In this paper, we address the problem of Part-Of-Speech tagging of Arabic texts with vowel marks. After the description of the specificities of Arabic language and the induced difficulties on the task of POS-tagging, we propose an approach combining several methods. One of these methods, based on sentences patterns, is original and very attractive. We present, afterward, the multi-agent archite...

The rise of social media such as blogs and social networks has fueled interest in sentiment analysis. With the proliferation of reviews, ratings, recommendations and other forms of online expression, online opinion has turned into a kind of virtual currency for businesses looking to market their products, identify new opportunities and manage their reputations, therefore many are now looking to...

Every language has its characteristics and rules, though all languages share the same components like words, sentences, subject, verb, object and so on. Nevertheless, Chomsky suggested the theory of language acquisition in children instinctively through a universal grammar that represents a universal grammar for all human languages. Since it has its declaration, this theory has encountered crit...