About 80 percent of the world's Muslim populations are non-native speakers of Arabic language. Since it is obligatory for all Muslims to recite the Qur'an in Arabic during regular prayers, an extraordinary social phenomenon has taken place in some parts of the Muslim world: in schools, children are only taught the complex phonetic rules of the Arabic language in the context of the Qur'an. This ...

In general, word stemming is one of the most important factors that affect the performance of information retrieval systems. The optimization issues of Arabic light stemming algorithm as a main component in natural language processing and information retrieval for Arabic language are based on root-pattern schemes. Since Arabic language is a highly inflected language and has a complex morphologi...

Audiovisual devices such as satellite and conventional televisions can offer easy access to authentic programs which are considered to be a rich source of language input for SLA (Second Language Acquisition). The immediacy of various audiovisual programs ensures that language learners’ exposure is up-to-date and embedded in the real world of native speakers. In the same line, in the present pap...

Language Engineering, including Information Retrieval, Machine Translation and other Natural Language-related disciplines, is showing in recent years more interest in the Arabic language. Suitable resources for Arabic are becoming a vital necessity for the progress of this research. Until recently, only two Arabic corpora were commonly available for researchers: the AFP Arabic newswire from LDC...

1. INTRODUCTION The character recognition of the Roman type of languages especially English has come near to perfection and it is also considered as one of the successful application in the field of computer vision. The work on Arabic script and other scripts is being continued on; but the languages adopting Arabic script is very little while the work on Sindhi language is near to its origin. T...

It is challenging to translate names and technical terms from English into Arabic. Translation is usually done phonetically: different alphabets and sound inventories force various compromises. For example, Peter Streams may come out as hr..~ ~ bytr szrymz. This process is called transliteration. We address here the reverse problem: given a foreign name or loanword in Arabic text, we want to re...

This study was aimed at analyzing the sociolinguistic phenomena during implementation of direct method in Arabic language learning PP Al Iman Putri. The used this a case with qualitative approach. results reveal that sociolinguistics contributes to learning, i.e., as is sub-discipline studies related social factors be main provision for students when they pursue their Middle Eastern countries. ...

This paper introduces SSML for using with Arabic language. SSML is part of a larger set of markup specifications for voice browsers developed through the open processes of the W3C. The essential role of the markup language is to give authors of synthesizable content a standard way to control aspects of speech output such as pronunciation, volume, pitch, rate, etc. across different synthesis-cap...