This paper presents a new root-extraction approach for Arabic words. The approach tries to assign for Arabic words a unique root without relying on a database of word roots, a list of word patterns or a list of all the prefixes and the suffixes of the Arabic words. Unlike most of Arabic rule-based stemmers, it tries to predict the root-letters positions one by one based on some rules and relati...

In recent years, some people, comparing the word “Ahmad” in a Quranic verse speaking of Jesus’ prophecy about Prophet Muhammad (Qur'an 61:6) with the word “Paraclete” in the Gospel of John (14:26, etc.), have tried to make a connection between them. They have ascribed to Muslims (and even to the Prophet himself) the idea that the word “Paraclete” is a distorted form of the word “periclete</...

Numerous studies on Arabic linguistics make reference to the phonological word (PW) as a constituent that serves domain for various phenomena, however, there is no clear and precise definition in literature of what actually constitutes PW whether it consists just bare morphological stem or includes affixes well. The purpose this paper gain better understanding status Najdi (NA), variety spoken ...

Standard English PoS-taggers generally involve tag-assignment (via dictionary-lookup etc) followed by tag-disambiguation (via a context model, e.g. PoS-ngrams or Brill transformations). We want to PoS-tag our Arabic Corpus, but evaluation of existing PoStaggers has highlighted shortcomings; in particular, about a quarter of all word tokens are not assigned a fully correct morphological analysis...

We demonstrate a data collection and analysis system that can be used to analyze the relative contributions of dialect dependent variation in the lexical of speech-like Arabic text. We utilize Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a generative Probabilistic modeling method, to analyze a phonetic Latin Spelled Arabic online chat corpus. The corpus produces different word choices and word relations ...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND READING IN BILINGUAL ENGLISH-ARABIC CHILDREN by Lama K. Farran This dissertation examined the relationship between language and reading in bilingual English-Arabic children. The dissertation followed a two chapter Review and Research Format. Chapter One presents a review of research that examined the relationship between oral language and reading developmen...

Arabic on social media has all the properties of any language on social media that make it tough for natural language processing, plus some specific problems. These include diglossia, the use of an alternative alphabet (Roman), and code switching with foreign languages. In this paper, we present a system which can process Arabic written in Roman alphabet (“Arabizi”). It identifies whether each ...

The cursive and ligature nature of the Arabic language make the segmentation of words into individual characters a difficult task. Despite attempts to apply methods for cursive Latin and other languages to Arabic, it is generally insufficient to segment Arabic text. This paper proposes a new segmentation algorithm for handwritten Arabic text and the main idea consist of segmenting the word into...

This paper presents a new technique of high accuracy to recognize both typewritten and handwritten English and Arabic texts without thinning. After segmenting the text into lines (horizontal segmentation) and the lines into words, it separates the word into its letters. Separating a text line (row) into words and a word into letters is performed by using the region growing technique (implicit s...