Arabic is a language of rich and complex morphology. The nature and peculiarity of Arabic make its morphological and phonological rules confusing for second language learners (SLLs). The conjugation of Arabic verbs is central to the formulation of an Arabic sentence because of its richness of form and meaning. In this paper, we address issues related to the morphological analysis of ill formed ...

Background. Gum arabic is a potential sensitizer in food industry. Methods. We examined 11 candy factory workers referred to examinations due to respiratory and skin symptoms paying attention to exposure and sensitization to gum arabic. Skin tests, pulmonary function tests, and respiratory provocation tests were carried out as indicated by the symptoms and findings. Results. Occupational asthma...

Most Arabic natural language processing tools and resources are developed to serve Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), which is the official written language in the Arab World. Some Dialectal Arabic varieties, notably Egyptian Arabic, have received some attention lately and have a growing collection of resources that include annotated corpora and morphological analyzers and taggers. Gulf Arabic, howe...

Arabic Numerals are one of the major aspects to be considered in Arabic language processing. In this paper, we present an approach for developing a numeral checker application for the Arabic language, called “Arabic Numerals Checker”. Arabic Numerals Checker is intended to help users achieve competence in writing according to the Arabic numeral rules. It is supported by an explanation facility ...

Arabic language is the most spoken languages in the Semitic languages group, and one of the most common languages in the world spoken by more than 422 million. It is also of paramount importance to Muslims, it is a sacred language of the Islamic Holly Book (Quran) and prayer (and other acts of worship) in Islam is performed only by mastering some of Arabic words. Arabic is also a major ritual l...

sa'adi shirazi, as one of the greatest persian poets, was also fluent in arabic language. despite his fluency in arabic, he has few poems in this language; however these few poems show his high position among iranian poets who composed in arabic. metaphor as an important rhetoric figure would be analyzed in sa’adi’s poems to show how much the manner of metaphor use, both in terms of form o...

Arabic script is cursive in both handwritten and printed form. Segmentation of Arabic scriptespecially handwrittenis a very challenging task. Many difficulties arise due to the inherent characteristics of Arabic writing such as the overlapping of Arabic sub-words wherein the sub-words share the same vertical space, and vertical ligatures wherein characters are stacked upon each other in a word....

This paper describes our efforts to build an Arabic ASR system with web-crawled resources. We first describe the processing done to handle Arabic text in general and more particularly to cope with the high number of different phonetic transcriptions associated to a typical Arabic word. Then, we present our experiments to build acoustic models using only audio data found in the web, in particula...

This paper investigates the unique pharyngeal and uvular consonants of Arabic from the point of view of automatic speech recognition (ASR). Comparisons of the recognition error rates for these phonemes are analyzed in five experiments that involve different combinations of native and non-native Arabic speakers. The most three confusing consonants for every investigated consonant are discussed. ...

Text readability refers to the ability of the reader to understand and comprehend a given text. In this research, we present our approach to develop an automatic readability index for the Arabic language: Automatic Arabic Readability Index (AARI), using factor analysis. Our results are based on more than 1196 Arabic texts extracted from the Jordanian curriculum in the subjects of: Arabic langua...