Lithuanian Tatars Manuscripts Written in Arabic Script from a Private Collection: New Discoveries

The History of Uighur script and calligraphy in Persian manuscripts

  Abstract After Mongol invasion into Iranian plateau new cultural elements entered by the invaders which influenced on some aspects of Persian book art. Uighur script which first was used to write Mongol and then eastern Turkish languages, appeared in Persian Manuscripts which were produced for Timurid governors and some of famous works are remained from Yazd, Herat, Guilan and Shiraz. These...

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. The Sami Haddad collection of Arabic medical manuscripts.

In September 1985, the London auction firm Sotheby's published a catalogue of Fine Oriental manuscripts andminiatures to be sold in their rooms on 21-22 November. This sale was of particular interest to historians of medieval Near Eastern medicine, since Lots 457-525 comprised a corpus of ninety-five manuscripts from the collection of the late Sami Haddad. Examination of the manuscripts reveale...

Foreign Words and the Automatic Processing of Arabic Social Media Text Written in Roman Script

Arabic on social media has all the properties of any language on social media that make it tough for natural language processing, plus some specific problems. These include diglossia, the use of an alternative alphabet (Roman), and code switching with foreign languages. In this paper, we present a system which can process Arabic written in Roman alphabet (“Arabizi”). It identifies whether each ...

Arabic Script Internationalized Domain Names

Tokenizing an Arabic Script Language

In any natural language processing project, the input text needs to undergo tokenization before morphological analysis or parsing. For Arabic script languages the tokenization process faces more problems and it plays a more crucial role in natural language processing (NLP) systems for Arabic script languages. In this work we elaborate on some of these problems and present solutions for these. T...