In this memory we made the design of an indexing model for Arabic language and adapting standards for describing learning resources used (the LOM and their application profiles) with learning conditions such as levels education of students, their levels of understanding... the pedagogical context with taking into account the representative elements of the text, text's length,... in particular, ...

This special issue of the Journal consists of nearly two dozen articles that address both methodological approaches to Arabic Natural Language Processing and Automatic Speech Recognition as well as pilot-tested applications that are of commercial value. In keeping with prior special issues of this Journal, published under the auspices of the current Editor-in-Chief, this issue will consider bot...

one of the most important task of the researchers after selection the research topic, is search for various sources and references for gathering data and information about the subject. undoubtedly this search has been more extensive and accurate, value and credibility. accordingly should be said that the number and variety of citation sources and credit is one of the criteria in evaluation acad...

The limited coverage of available Arabic language lexicons causes a serious challenge in Arabic cross language information retrieval. Translation in cross language information retrieval consists of assigning one of the semantic representation terms in the target language to the intended query. Despite the problem of the completeness of the dictionary, we also face the problem of which one of th...

the arabic language of the qur'an is an integral aspect of this revealed book. it is not only the content of the qur'an which has come from allah, the container is also divine and cannot be separated from the message. since the message has been sent to mankind, it has a clear human language as its vehicle of expression' but the very words and verses of the qur'an have no! be...

In this paper we present the first application of Native Language Identification (NLI) to Arabic learner data. NLI, the task of predicting a writer’s first language from their writing in other languages has been mostly investigated with English data, but is now expanding to other languages. We use L2 texts from the newly released Arabic Learner Corpus and with a combination of three syntactic f...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate three public Arabic speech corpora, namely the West Point (WP), Saudi Accented Arabic Voice Bank (SAAVB) and the BBN Technologies/American University at Beirut (BBN/AUB) corpus by referring the TIMIT English speech corpus as benchmark. Weaknesses, strengths, and discrepancies of these Arabic corpora regarding their design and content are covered in this pape...

Reciting and memorizing the Qur’an forms a major part of religious practice for 1.6 billion Muslims around the world; in non-Arabic-speaking Muslim communities, it also provides Muslim speakers of other languages with their first exposure to the Arabic script and language. However, little research has been completed regarding the psycholinguistic processing of Qur’anic Arabic. In this paper, we...