The present paper describes the experience gained at LDC in the collection and transcription of conversational dialectal Arabic. The paper will cover the following: (a) Arabic language background; (b) objectives. principles, and methodological choices of dialectal Arabic transcription, (c) design features of LDC‟s „Arabic MultiDialectal Transcription Tool‟ (AMADAT) and metalanguage transcriptio...

Arabic machine translation has been taking place in machine translation projects in recent years. This study concentrates on the translation of Arabic text to its equivalent in Malay language. The problem of this research is the syntactic and morphological differences between Arabic and Malay adjective sentences. The main aim of this study is to design and develop Arabic-Malay machine translati...

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...

â  â  significance of taking notice of pronouns in the selected poems of “mahmoud darwish” â  â  â  â  fatemeh lotfigoodarzi * â  pabiyah bent alhaj maming ** â  â  abstract â â â  eltifat is one of the most prominent artistic techniques that impressively drew the attention of the old and modern poets. this rhetorical style bestows richness to texts and contributes to avoiding direct addres...

This work presents a system for Automatic Arabic punctuation marks. Existing approaches for automatic punctuation marks do not provide suitable performance for and do not satisfy user interests in Arabic texts. The importance and rising need to automate the correct insertion of punctuation marks in Arabic texts led to a need of specific analysis of the Arabic language to introduce approaches th...

The Named Entity Recognition (NER) is a task in Information Extraction (IE). The Named entity recognition has become very important for natural language processing. The named entity recognition is defined as the detection and classification of entities from un-structured text where for the Arabic language, the named entity recognition is new in the natural language processing although it has pr...

Arabic Sign Language (ArSL) is the native language for the Arab deaf community. ArSL allows deaf people to communicate among themselves and with non-deaf people around them to express their needs, thoughts and feelings. Opposite to spoken languages, Sign Language (SL) depends on hands and facial expression to express the thought instead of sounds. In recent years, interest in translating sign l...