Clitics in Arabic language can be attached to a stem or to each other without orthographic marks such as an apostrophe. In this paper we present a statistical study of clitics and its effect in Arabic language. We tokenize large Arabic text using white-spaces and an automatic clitics tokenizer (AMIRA 2.0) and compare the unique-word count in both cases with English language. We also show the re...

common media have a critical role in forming the recent islamic community, to some extend that it is possible to consider it as a useful means in publishing islamic values and awareness. therefore, the importance of applying these useful means for social awareness is apparent for everyone. considering globalizing and its destructive effects on arabic language, arabic world donate much importanc...

Sentiment analysis research has predominantly been on English texts. Thus there exist many sentiment resources for English, but less so for other languages. Approaches to improve sentiment analysis in a resource-poor focus language include: (a) translate the focus language text into a resource-rich language such as English, and apply a powerful English sentiment analysis system on the text, and...

In the past several years, Arabic Information Retrieval (IR) has garnered significant attention. The main research interests have focused on retrieval of formal language, mostly in the news domain, with ad hoc retrieval, OCR document retrieval, and cross-language retrieval. The literature on other aspects of retrieval continues to be sparse or non-existent, though some of these aspects have bee...

Arabic language is the most spoken languages in the Semitic languages group, and one of the most common languages in the world spoken by more than 422 million. It is also of paramount importance to Muslims, it is a sacred language of the Islamic Holly Book (Quran) and prayer (and other acts of worship) in Islam is performed only by mastering some of Arabic words. Arabic is also a major ritual l...

BACKGROUND With the adoption of the English language in medical education, a gap in clinical communication may develop in countries where the native language is different from the language of medical education. This study investigates the association between medical education in a foreign language and students' confidence in their history-taking skills in their native language. METHODS This c...

Representing Arabic Text semantically using Rich Semantic Graph (RSG) is one of the recent techniques that facilitate the process of manipulating the Arabic Language in Natural Language Processing (NLP) field. The work presented in this paper is a part of an ongoing research to create an abstractive summary for a single input document in Arabic Language. The abstractive summary is generated thr...

This paper presents a hybrid approach to the enhancement of English to Arabic statistical machine translation quality. Machine Translation has been defined as the process that utilizes computer software to translate text from one natural language to another. Arabic, as a morphologically rich language, is a highly flexional language, in that the same root can lead to various forms according to i...

Developments in Arabic information retrieval did not follow the increasing use of the Arabic Web during the last decade. Semantic indexing in a language with high inflectional morphology, such as Arabic, is not a trivial task and requires a text analysis in the original language. Excepting cross-language retrieval methods or limited studies, the main efforts, for developing semantic analysis me...

Internet communication plays a considerable part in economic, financial and even politic domains. It is greatly influencing the politic revolution of many Arabic countries. That allows Internet communication to take more and more scale especially in an Arabic context. In this case, we notice that Internet communication is based on textual interchange using Arabic dialects more than Arabic langu...