In order to construct a generic grammatical resource for Arabic language, we have chosen to develop an Arabic grammar based on TAG formalism. Our choice is, especially, justified by complementarities that we have noticed between Arabic syntax and this grammatical formalism. This paper consists of two comparative studies. The first is between a set of unification grammars. The second is between ...

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...

Tunisian Arabic is a dialect of the Arabic language spoken in Tunisia. Tunisian Arabic is an under-resourced language. It has neither a standard orthography nor large collections of written text and dictionaries. Actually, there is no strict separation between Modern Standard Arabic, the official language of the government, media and education, and Tunisian Arabic; the two exist on a continuum ...

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 the translation of texts of soc...

There are millions of people in the world speak many languages. To communicate with each other it is necessary to know the language which we use. To do this operation we use language identification system. In general, Automatic Speech Recognition for English and other languages has been the subject of most researches in the last forty years. Arabic language research has been growing very slowly...

arabic language has etperienced many threats from the very time of the advent of islam up to now. these threats are doubled in the modern time. among these threats we can refer to the we of colloquialism or writing in latin alphabets forwhich somer have reactrd positively. specially in chatting. the output of this process haslead to creation of a language called .the language of chat. microsaft...

Text processing is a vital step in the information retrieval process, text mining, and natural language processing. It includes several stages, such as normalization, stop word removal, and stemming. Stemming is the process of reducing the lexicon to its root. Due to the different structures and rules in languages, the task of stemming is language-dependent. This research introduces a new stemm...

word formation and word selection in one hand’ are considered from higher processes a word aqualization which has a wide range application for language theorists and researchers in order to enrich language or in a better way in order to set free them from words. inadequacy challenge and also lach of the knowledge of the words in technology and industry fields aspecially in arabic and persian sp...

We present a working Arabic information extraction (IE) system that is used to analyze large volumes of news texts every day to extract the named entity (NE) types person, organization, location, date and number, as well as quotations (direct reported speech) by and about people. The Named Entity Recognition (NER) system was not developed for Arabic, but instead a highly multilingual, almost la...