Despite the extensive research carried out on definition, classification and translation procedures of culture-specific words (CSWs) in text translation, little attention has been given to these creation equivalence bilingual dictionary. This paper examines nature adequacy major CSWs as well their application two Arabic-English dictionaries: Wehr’s Dictionary Modern Written Arabic Munir Baalbak...

This study aims at identifying the similarities and differences between weather-related metaphors in English Arabic terms of structure, function, range collocations. A sample was collected from bilingual monolingual dictionaries both languages relevant corpora such as COCA BNC. In addition, were everyday conversations, dialogues talk shows two languages. The data analysis revealed that are refl...

Since the advent of the Semantic Web in the late 90’s, many Web applications were created to benefit from the capabilities provided by Semantic Web technologies. These capabilities include intelligent reasoning over data, semantic search and data interoperability. However, most Semantic Web technologies are dedicated to processing Latin family scripts, thus, an apparent lack of Arabic script su...

At our institutes we are working with quite some dictionaries and lexical resources in the field of less-resourced language data, like dialects and historical languages. We are aiming at publishing those lexical data in the Linked Open Data framework in order to link them with available data sets for highly-resourced languages and elevating them thus to the same “digital dignity” the mainstream...

This paper describes a study of grapheme-based speech recognition for colloquial Arabic. An investigation of language and acoustic model configurations is carried out to illustrate the differences between colloquial and modern standard Arabic (MSA) on the example of Levantine telephone conversations. The study defines extensive and carefully crafted data sets for different dialects and studies ...

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...

The study of translation by bilingual female students studying Arabic had not received much attention, especially with regard to the cultural errors that these made during English-Arabic translations, which resulted in them making mistakes translation. This prompted researchers focus on this area. main objective article is explore common collocation among Federal College Education (Technical), ...

Dictionaries in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Bosnian that were created used Bosnia from the 16th to 19th century are an indispensable segment of lexicographic tradition. Based on researchers analysis form, language, methodology, questions authorship, reception dictionaries stored institutional manuscript collections Herzegovina, it is possible talk about dominant trends practices during Ottoma...