In this paper we present initial results on parsing Arabic using treebank-based parsers and automatic LFG f-structure annotation methodologies. The Arabic Annotation Algorithm (A) (Tounsi et al., 2009) exploits the rich functional annotations in the Penn Arabic Treebank (ATB) (Bies and Maamouri, 2003; Maamouri and Bies, 2004) to assign LFG f-structure equations to trees. For parsing, we modify ...

In this paper, we compile and review several experiments measuring cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) performance as a function of the following resources: bilingual term lists, parallel corpora, machine translation (MT), and stemmers. Our CLIR system uses a simple probabilistic language model; the studies used TREC test corpora over Chinese, Spanish and Arabic. Our findings include: • ...

The most important reference work for pharmacology in the Islamic Era is Materia Medica by Dioscorides, the Greek scientist. It’s also named fi-hayuli-al-Tibb in the Islamic era. There are several different translation of this book in Arabic and Persian. In this article I’m going to introduce a manuscript of one the Arabic translation of this book which hasn’t been mentioned in any bibliographi...

There are many emphatic particles in the Arabic language and variety of their functionalization sentences, so objective this research is to study them clarify significance sentence included grammatical syntactic effect. Thus, comprehending concepts leads meaning for which was constructed. These frequently mentioned Holy Qur’an intended by them. A specific indication, matter makes studying it gr...

Memory-based learning has been successfully applied to morphological analysis and part-ofspeech tagging in Western and Eastern-European languages (Daelemans et al., 1996; Van den Bosch and Daelemans, 1999; Zavrel and Daelemans, 1999). With the release of the Arabic Treebank by the Linguistic Data Consortium, a large corpus has become available for Arabic that can act as training material for ma...

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 The terms Spoken Grammar was coined by the two corpus grammarians, Ronald Carter and Mike McCarthy. In 19th century, it came under impact of a number local dialects represented cockney dialect in London, Lothian Edinburgh. discussions, debates studies on grammar have led to specification three main viewpoints concerning existence this types grammar. entail that (1) grammatical ru...

In the time being, the need for searching in the words, objects, subjects, and statistics of words and parts of the Holy Quran has grown rapidly concurrently with the grow of number of Moslems and the huge usage of smart mobiles, tablets and lab tops. Because, databases are used almost in all activities of our life, some DBs have been built to store information about words and surah of Quran. T...