In the context of arabic Information Retrieval Systems (IRS) guided by arabic ontology and to enable those systems to better respond to user requirements, this paper aims to representing documents and queries by the best concepts extracted from Arabic Wordnet. Identified concepts belonging to Arabic WordNet synsets are extracted from documents and queries, and those having a single sense are ex...

In this paper, we present the details of the Arabic Semantic Labeling task. We describe some of the features of Arabic that are relevant for the task. The task comprises two subtasks: Arabic word sense disambiguation and Arabic semantic role labeling. The task focuses on modern standard Arabic.

the fourth and fifth centuries ah are the golden era of arabic poetry in iran when we see a great movement in arabic poetry across iran.although it is unknown why, sistan in iran had a great role in the development and prosperity of arabic poems. but no investigation has been done about its role up to now. the presentresearch seeks topresent some topics of arabic poetry in sistanthrough explori...

The written form of the Arabic language, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), differs in a nontrivial manner from the various spoken regional dialects of Arabic – the true “native languages” of Arabic speakers. Those dialects, in turn, differ quite a bit from each other. However, due to MSA’s prevalence in written form, almost all Arabic datasets have predominantly MSA content. In this article, we des...

This paper presents a preliminary study of intra-speaker and inter-speaker variability in speech production and perception with an inter-dialect investigation of acoustic vocalic space according to different phonological systems. This work aims at providing an analytic study based on individual data that might account for individual strategies. We have studied variability in vowel production an...

DIRA is a query expansion tool that generates search terms in Standard Arabic and/or its dialects when provided with queries in English or Standard Arabic. The retrieval of dialectal Arabic text has recently become necessary due to the increase of dialectal content on social media. DIRA addresses the challenges of retrieving information in Arabic dialects, which have significant linguistic diff...

Online Arabic content is growing very rapidly, with unmatched growth in Arabic structured resources. Systems that perform standard Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as Named Entity Disambiguation (NED) struggle to deliver decent quality due to the lack of rich Arabic entity repositories. In this paper, we introduce EDRAK, an automatically generated comprehensive Arabic entity-centric...

This paper discusses issues regarding the influence of culture on Arabic Websites. Arabic Websites from three countries serve as an initial sample for this study. Do the Websites of Arabic countries reflect their culture? How specifically? Do they share attitudes about design? Can an Arabic designer achieve what users in other cultures need and want? What are differences reflected in the differ...

â  pathology of theses in the department of arabic language and literature in university of isfahan in its half a century activities â  (a descriptive – analytical study) â â â  somayeh hasan alian * â  sayyedmohammadreza ibnorrasool ** â  â  considering the importance of understanding the history of researches in every field and the necessity of the pathology of these researches to enhance k...

This paper focuses on the automatic extraction of Arabic Named Entities (NEs) from the Arabic Wikipedia (AWP), their automatic attachment to Arabic WordNet (AWN) and their automatic link to Princeton's English WordNet (PWN). We briefly report on the current status of AWN, focusing on its rather limited NE coverage. Our proposal of automatic extension is then presented, applied and evaluated. Ke...