The rise in Arabic usage within various social media platforms, and notably in Twitter, has led to a growing interest in building Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications capable of dealing with informal colloquial Arabic, as it is the most commonly used form of Arabic in social media. The unique characteristics of the Arabic language make the extraction of Arabic named entities a ...

This paper reports results of a workshop on the design of electronic content for users with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD), particularly Arabic dyslexics. First we shed some light on the nature of the Arabic language and discuss features that account for the unique needs of Arabic users with reading disorders. Then we present recommendations for accessible web design for Arabic content i...

In this paper, we present a tool for parsing the Arabic language based on supervised machine learning. The used algorithm for the learning phase is the support vector machine. We also used the Penn Arabic Treebank as a learning corpus. Furthermore, we evaluated our parser following the cross validation method. The obtained results are very encouraging. We give at the end our vision to ameliorat...

Students and staff perspectives on language barriers in medical education in Egypt and their attitude towards Arabization of the medical curriculum were explored in a questionnaire survey of 400 medical students and 150 staff members. Many students (56.3%) did not consider learning medicine in English an obstacle, and 44.5% of staff considered it an obstacle only in the 1st year of medical scho...

This study dealt with the effect of computer – mediated instruction on improving Arabic language writing skills of university juniors in Arabic language classes. It also surveyed data concerning student perceptions about the technology – enhanced environment of learning. Objectives of the study were to determine: a) the effect of technology – enhanced instruction on developing students writing ...

Learning planning must be prepared in a systematic way and according to the needs achieve desired goal. In this case, researcher used qualitative research describing how learning is, as for points discussed, namely; (1) finding relevant data topic being (2) collecting classifying from sources analyzed, (3) analyzing advantages disadvantages related data, (4) concluding results of analysis. The ...