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...

Bladder cancer is among the most frequently diagnosed cancer. Tobacco smoking exposures involving nitrosamines and aromatic amines are the main cause of bladder cancer. Although cigarette consumption has gradually decreased, an increased incidence of bladder cancer was registered among males Tunisian for the last two decades. A similar increased incidence of lung adenocarcinoma and bladder canc...

In this paper, we present a hybrid method for semi-automatic building of domain ontology from spoken dialogue corpus in Tunisian Dialect for the railway request information domain. The proposed method is based on a statistical method for term and concept extraction and a linguistic method for semantic relation extraction. This method consists of three fundamental phases, namely the corpus const...

318 Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases | Volume 6 | Number 4 | July 2012 kidney calculi, the clinical features and risk factors of urolithiasis were evaluated.1 They concluded that urolithiasis remains a serious problem in Iranian children. In addition, family history of urolithiasis, urologic abnormalities, metabolic disorders, and urinary tract infections were associated risk factors for pedi...

Abstract The alliance between the leftist movement Perspectives Tunisiennes and university students delivered sustained opposition repeated protests against Bourguiba's regime in 1960s 1970s. This article argues that these groups were driven by “student question,” a counterproject for Tunisian national development opposed vision of liberal bourgeois modernity espoused reforms elitism through ed...

Yq microdeletions are the leading genetic cause of male infertility and its detection in clinically relevant for appropriate genetic counseling. The objective of this study was to determine the frequency of Y microdeletion in a group of Tunisian infertile men and to compare the prevalence of these abnormalities with other countries and other Tunisian reported series. Totally, 105 Tunisian idiop...

BACKGROUND There is an increasing prevalence of obesity and metabolic syndrome (MS) in developing countries. It has been shown the relationship between social class and MS in developed countries. The objective of our study was to compare the association of social class with the prevalence of MS in a developing country (Tunisia, region of Cap-Bon) and a developed one (Spain, Canary Islands). M...

The aim of this study was to show how, in some particular circumstances, a physical marker can be used along with molecular markers in the research of an ancient people movement. A set of five Alu insertions was analysed in 42 subjects from a particular Tunisian group (El Hamma) that has, unlike most of the Tunisian population, a very dark skin, similar to that of sub-Saharans, and in 114 Tunis...

How does democratisation affect the politics of migration? This paper analyses Tunisian immigration and emigration in decade before after 2011 revolution, drawing on 57 interviews with high-level civil servants, as well representatives society international organisations. It shows that policy processes expansion citizens’ political freedoms did not result pro-migrant rights reforms, but instead...