! The Judeo-Arabic languages comprise a set of dialects spoken and written by Jewish communities living in Arab countries, mainly during the middle ages. Judeo-Arabic is typically written in Hebrew letters, enriched with various diacritic marks. The Judeo-Arabic spoken and written by any particular Jewish community is similar to the Arabic dialect used by their local Muslim community. In additi...

This paper discusses issues regarding the influence of culture on Arabic Websites. Arabic Websites from three countries serve as an initial sample for this study. Do the Websites of Arabic countries reflect their culture? How specifically? Do they share attitudes about design? Can an Arabic designer achieve what users in other cultures need and want? What are differences reflected in the differ...

Sign language in the Arab World has been recently recognized and documented. Many efforts have been made to establish the sign language used in individual countries, including Jordan, Egypt, Libya, and the Gulf States, by trying to standardize the language and spread it among members of the Deaf community and those concerned. Such efforts produced many sign languages, almost as many as Arabic-s...

The global epidemic of diabetes has not spared the Arabic-speaking countries, which have some of the highest prevalence of type II diabetes. This is particularly true of the Arab Gulf, a conglomerate of high income, oil-producing countries where prevalence rates are the highest. The prevalence rates among adults of the Arabic speaking countries as a whole range between 4%-21%, with the lowest b...

Offline Arabic handwriting character recognition (AHCR) systems are very important since they make life easier for governments, researchers and scholars who are dealing with Arabic language in education, documentation and security. A widening use of the Arabic script in countries that deals with the Arabic language and countries that use the Arabic script in their languages such as Persian and ...

In this work we explore some challenges related to analysing one form of the Arabic language called Arabizi. Arabizi, a portmanteau of Araby-Englizi, meaning Arabic-English, is a digital trend in texting Non-Standard Arabic using Latin script. Arabizi users express their natural dialectal Arabic in text without following a unified orthography. We address the challenge of identifying Arabizi fro...

some linguists believe that word in arabic language was initially based on one syllabus; orators have changed them according to the special countries, tribes and societies. they have contrived special acumen for any prefixes, suffixes and affixes addition. some other linguists believed that word was initially formed based on three letters, and thus different accents and languages were ramified ...

The paper describes some of the work carried out within the European funded project MEDAR. The project has three streams of activity: the technical stream, the cooperation stream and the dissemination stream. MEDAR has first updated the existing surveys and BLARK for Arabic, and then the technical stream focused on machine translation. The consortium identified a number of freely available MT s...

Bots are programs that crawl through the web site and make auto registrations. CAPTCHAs, using Latin script, are widely used to prevent automated bots from abusing online services on the World Wide Web. However, many of the existing English based CAPTCHAs have some inherent problems and cannot assure the security of these websites. This paper proposes a method that focuses on the use of Arabic ...