In this paper, we offer broad insight into the underperformance of Arabic constituency parsing by analyzing the interplay of linguistic phenomena, annotation choices, and model design. First, we identify sources of syntactic ambiguity understudied in the existing parsing literature. Second, we show that although the Penn Arabic Treebank is similar to other treebanks in gross statistical terms, ...

reaching a considerable growth in terms of rhetoric, eloquence, and semantic richness of words or terms, the arabic language was ready in the pre-islamic period to receive the divine revelation. on the other hand, the qur’an (as the word of allah) with its sublime meanings and boundless scientific facts had to be revealed in the arabic language in such a way that it would succeed in duly commun...

the art of maqamaah is consideral as ane of the most importatant skills in arabic literature in which we can come upon so many beautiful interpretations representing unique (new) colours and images and the harmony of therhythme which it has in the structure has embdlished it so beautifully.this art was first appeared during the abbassieds in fourth century a. h. as it was mentioned abow the art...

As part of the DocumentToText project, which is being piloted by TIME University and Horizon data society, we are working to develop an Optical Character Recognition engine to convert all scanned books that exist in Tunisian University into editable textual documents . In this article we present our approach for the development of an OCR system as well as the presentation of the utility of usin...

A review of the nursing and health-related literature on spirituality revealed that no valid and reliable research tool exists in Arabic for measuring spiritual beliefs and practices for Arab Muslim population. This study translated the Spiritual Involvement and Beliefs Scale (SIBS) into Arabic and examined the psychometric properties of the Arabic version in a sample of Jordanian Arab Muslim n...

at present, arising of blank verse is assumed as a turning point in arabic language and literature. by birth of poetic modern phenomenon, verse total meaning and especially its poetic music were transformed. as a result, in the course of the given process, musical structure of contemporary arabic verse exited from its traditional and ancient texture and reached to a completely different archite...

Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq's Arabic translation of Galen's commentary on the Hippocratic Epidemics is an invaluable source for our knowledge of Galenic medicine and its transmission history, not least because much of it is extant only in Arabic. Its importance for the Arabic medical tradition is amply attested in the later medical literature. It also tells us much about the methods and self-image of cont...