Arabic Grammar, Arabic Upper Model, Arabic Gemeration. Arabic has had wellestablished theoretical studies for more than 1000 years. However, If Arabic is compared with other languages, it has received much less modern computational interest. The aim of this research work is to try to make use of some of the Arabic linguistic theories and adapt them to be used in machine processing. To start wit...

In the past several years, Arabic Information Retrieval (IR) has garnered significant attention. The main research interests have focused on retrieval of formal language, mostly in the news domain, with ad hoc retrieval, OCR document retrieval, and cross-language retrieval. The literature on other aspects of retrieval continues to be sparse or non-existent, though some of these aspects have bee...

Is there a need to apply phonetics in speech technology development? How can phonetic thinking influence the quality of the final product (synthesised speech, speech recognition)? What happens if phonetic aspects are not used? What branches of phonetics are used, and what is to be used in speech technology? How phonetic thinking can be embedded into the development procedure of a speech technol...

The Berkeley Phonetics Machine is a Linux virtual machine image produced and used by the UC Berkeley Phonology Lab as a platform for phonetic research. It contains a full data analysis stack based on Python and R and also specialized tools for phonetic research. The machine is designed as a flexible and productive platform for established and novel research agendas that can be easily shared and...

Most tools and resources developed for natural language processing of Arabic are designed for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and perform terribly on Arabic dialects, such as Egyptian Arabic. Egyptian Arabic differs from MSA phonologically, morphologically and lexically and has no standardized orthography. We present a linguistically accurate, large-scale morphological analyzer for Egyptian Arabic...

OF THE DISSERTATION Degrees of Incompleteness in Neutralization: Paradigm Uniformity in a Phonetics with Weighted Constraints

This book provides system developers and researchers in natural language processing and computational linguistics with the necessary background information for working with the Arabic language. The goal is to introduce Arabic linguistic phenomena and review the state-of-the-art in Arabic processing. The book discusses Arabic script, phonology, orthography, morphology, syntax and semantics, with...