Proficiency testing is an important ingredient in successful language teaching. However, repeated testing for course placement, over the course of instruction or for certification can be time-consuming and costly. We present the design and validation of the Versant Arabic Test, a fully automated test of spoken Modern Standard Arabic, that evaluates test-takers' facility in listening and speakin...

This paper describes the process of creating a novel resource, a parallel Arabizi-Arabic script corpus of SMS/Chat data. The language used in social media expresses many differences from other written genres: its vocabulary is informal with intentional deviations from standard orthography such as repeated letters for emphasis; typos and nonstandard abbreviations are common; and nonlinguistic co...

This paper surveys some of the literature pertaining to searching and retrieving OCR’ed printed documents with emphasis on Arabic documents. It examines peculiarities of Arabic morphology, orthography, retrieval, word clustering, display, OCR, and error correction. The paper surveys existing evaluation test-beds for retrieval of Arabic OCR texts. Lastly, it concludes with possible directions fo...

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the formal language in most Arabic countries. Arabic Dialects (AD) or daily language differs from MSA especially in social media communication. However, most Arabic social media texts have mixed forms and many variations especially between MSA and AD. This paper aims to bridge the gap between MSA and AD by providing a framework for AD classification using probabi...

Modern standard Arabic is usually written without diacritics. This makes it difficult for performing Arabic text processing. Diacritization helps clarify the meaning of words and disambiguate any vague spellings or pronunciations, as some Arabic words are spelled the same but differ in meaning. In this paper, we address the issue of adding diacritics to undiacritized Arabic text using a hybrid ...

epic poetry is a sort of ancient literature which exists in most of the world's literatures such as roman, greek, indian and iranian; but arabic literature has not used this type of literature. major reasons for this are as follows: 1. lack of nationalistic sense 2. arabic poetry is mostly based on vocality 3. there haven't been real long term wars between arabs 4. arabic poetry has h...

mahmoud sami al-barodi is one of pioneers of modern arabic poetry and one of leaders of literary movement that his purpose was to revive the old poetical inheritance and to return the literature to its e honorable past. it was the school converting to prominent and unique one ,later. he attempted to compose wishes and to show the realities of society in his poetry. he must really be considered ...

Arabic is a widely-spoken language with a rich and long history spanning more than fourteen centuries. Yet existing Arabic corpora largely focus on the modern period or lack sufficient diachronic information. We develop a large-scale, historical corpus of Arabic of about 1 billion words from diverse periods of time. We clean this corpus, process it with a morphological analyzer, and enhance it ...

The Arabic language is a collection of spoken dialects with important phonological, morphological, lexical, and syntactic differences, along with a standard written language, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Since the spoken dialects are not officially written, it is very costly to obtain adequate corpora to use for training dialect NLP tools such as parsers. In this paper, we address the problem ...

In this paper, we describe an extension to a hybrid machine translation system for handling dialect Arabic, using a decoding algorithm to normalize non-standard, spontaneous and dialectal Arabic into Modern Standard Arabic. We prove the feasibility of the approach by measuring and comparing machine translation results in terms of BLEU with and without the proposed approach. We show in our tests...