The tourist flows between the Arabic-speaking world and the West have strengthened the need to develop several Arabic websites, brochures, guidebooks etc. in order to be closer to Arabic speaking visitors to Western countries. In the field of tourism, English has a predominant role and the Arabic language, through different strategies of word-formation, is reacting to Western influence by gener...

Proper nouns may be considered as the most important query words in information retrieval. If the two languages use the same alphabet, the same proper nouns can be found in either language. However, if the two languages use different alphabets, the names must be transliterated. Short vowels are not usually marked on the Arabic words in almost all Arabic documents (except very important document...

This paper documents a restriction against the co-occurrence of homorganic consonants in the root morphemes of Muna, a western Austronesian language, and compares the Muna pattern with the much-studied similar pattern in Arabic. As in Arabic, the restriction applies gradiently: its force depends on the place of articulation of the consonants involved, and on whether the homorganic consonants ar...

Broad-coverage language resources which provide prior linguistic knowledge must improve the accuracy and the performance of NLP applications. We are constructing a broad-coverage lexical resource to improve the accuracy of morphological analyzers and part-of-speech taggers of Arabic text. Over the past 1200 years, many different kinds of Arabic language lexicons were constructed; these lexicons...

The present study presents results from picture description, sentence completion and grammaticality judgment tasks with four MA-speaking Broca’s aphasic subjects and four age, sex, and education matched control subjects investigating tense and agreement markers. Specifically, the study explores tense and agreement disassociation in agrammatic speakers of Moroccan Arabic as predicted by the Tree...

Huge amount of Arabic information and documents are widely spread on the Internet. The accuracy of searching for Arabic documents, as well as other documents, depends on the terms used by the user in the input query to retrieve relevant results and to reduce irrelevant ones. Most results returned are relevant to the query terms not to its meaning. For example, searching for “ ت ص ل ب ا ل ش ر ا ...

One of the major problems of modern Information Retrieval (IR) systems is the vocabulary Problem that concerns with the discrepancies between terms used for describing documents and the terms used by the researcher to describe their information need. We have implemented an automatic thesurs, the system was built using Vector Space Model (VSM). In this model, we used Cosine measure similarity. I...

Functional Arabic Morphology is a formulation of the Arabic inflectional system seeking the working interface between morphology and syntax. ElixirFM is its high-level implementation that reuses and extends the Functional Morphology library for Haskell. Inflection and derivation are modeled in terms of paradigms, grammatical categories, lexemes and word classes. The computation of analysis or g...

Social networks and users’ interactions are distinct features for the current Web. They constitute a fundamental part of Web 2.0, where people produce, disseminate, and consume information in new interactive forms where users are not only passive information receivers. Social media succeed to attract a large portion of online users, which explains the explosive growth of social media in terms o...

philosophical and scientific studies, with medicine especially well represented, but the work's usefulness will not be limited to these areas. Endress and Gutas have registered every word in most of the texts they have included; their Lexicon is thus not only a dictionary of technical and scientific vocabulary, but covers ordinary discourse and literary language as well. In this regard it is ve...