The aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants of the noninterest income for the Tunisian context by the use of data of 10 Tunisian deposit banks. Our sample is observed during the period 1998-2009. Using panel data estimation; our findings reveal that the information and communication technologies adoption and the banking characteristics are the main influential factors shaping the tende...

This study is an extension of our last researches about the detection of transition zones based on multiresolution spectral analysis (MRS). In this paper we present the fourth step for the realization of an automatic system for Tunisian Dialect segmentation and analysis. The MRS is calculated over several Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) of different length. It can provide a higher temporal accura...

OBJECTIVE To translate into Arabic and validate the SF-36 quality of life index in a Tunisian Arabic population. BACKGROUND No validated Arabic quality of life index is published. DESIGN Arabic translation of the SF-36 scale was obtained by the "forward/backward translation" method. Adaptations were made after a pilot study involving 22 subjects from general population. Inter-rater reliabil...

In this paper we describe an effort to create a corpus and phonetic dictionary for Tunisian Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The corpus, named TARIC (Tunisian Arabic Railway Interaction Corpus) has a collection of audio recordings and transcriptions from dialogues in the Tunisian Railway Transport Network. The phonetic (or pronunciation) dictionary is an important ASR component that s...

Nowadays in tunisia, the arabic Tunisian Dialect (TD) has become progressively used in interviews, news and debate programs instead of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Thus, this gave birth to a new kind of language. Indeed, the majority of speech is no longer made in MSA but alternates between MSA and TD. This situation has important negative consequences on Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR): si...

In this paper, we study the problem of syntactic analysis of Dialectal Arabic (DA). Actually, corpora are considered as an important resource for the automatic processing of languages. Thus, we propose a method of creating a treebank for the Tunisian Arabic (TA) “Tunisian Treebank” in order to adapt an Arabic parser to treat the TA which is considered as a variant of the Arabic language.

The language is the key instrument by which we assimilate the culture of our country. As culture is influenced by various factors related to history, traditions, etc. language is also affected by these phenomena. Their influence may differ from one region to another; this can produce specific regional language known as dialects. The dialect encloses lexical, syntactic or phonetic particularitie...