In this paper, Arabic was investigated from the speech recognition problem point of view. We propose a novel approach to build an Arabic automated speech recognition system using Arabic environment. The system, based on the open source CMU Sphinx-4, was trained using Arabic characters.

persian language has influenced arabic language in many different ways; especially in the lexical area of language. since many persian words have entered arabic language, this language has been affected by persian language and culture. many of these persian words can be found in an arabic lexicon called lesan-al-arab. the writers of this article have analyzed the arabic form of the word sepanjg...

debate is an independent technique  in literature that has been common among poets and writers in arabic literature for a long time. the literary genre which has been shaped based on  imitating  real debates is a hostile or friendly dialogue between parties of the debate who could be human, animal, plant, abstract concepts, natural and other elements. since this genre exists very strikingly and...

the poets of lyrical poetry usually take advantage of various ways. one method used to compose love poetry is usage of alphabetic letters. other than the combination of letters in order to create new words and meanings, arabic letters of alphabet basically have another literary role – discussed in this paper – that of outward shape of the letter which has been used to create the most beautiful ...

This paper explains for the Arabic language, how to extract named entities and topics from news articles. Due to the lack of high quality tools for Named Entity Recognition (NER) and topic identification for Arabic, we have built an Arabic NER (RenA) and an Arabic topic extraction tool using the popular LDA algorithm (ALDA). NER involves extracting information and identifying types, such as nam...

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 ...

We provide lexical profiling for Arabic by covering two important linguistic aspects of Arabic lexical information, namely morphological inflectional paradigms and syntactic subcategorization frames, making our database a rich repository of Arabic lexicographic details. First, we provide a complete description of the inflectional behaviour of Arabic lemmas based on statistical distribution. We ...

This paper describes the parallel development of an Egyptian Arabic Treebank and a morphological analyzer for Egyptian Arabic (CALIMA). By the very nature of Egyptian Arabic, the data collected is informal, for example Discussion Forum text, which we use for the treebank discussed here. In addition, Egyptian Arabic, like other Arabic dialects, is sufficiently different from Modern Standard Arab...

We present OSMAN (Open Source Metric for Measuring Arabic Narratives) a novel open source Arabic readability metric and tool. It allows researchers to calculate readability for Arabic text with and without diacritics. OSMAN is a modified version of the conventional readability formulas such as Flesch and Fog. In our work we introduce a novel approach towards counting short, long and stress syll...