This paper presents a comprehensive NLP system by Melingo that has been recently developed for Arabic, based on Morfix – an operational formerly developed highly successful comprehensive Hebrew NLP system. The system discussed includes modules for morphological analysis, context sensitive lemmatization, vocalization, text-to-phoneme conversion, and syntactic-analysis-based prosody (intonation) ...

The transliteration of Arabic proper nouns to other languages is usually based on the phonetic translation of these nouns into their phonetic Latin counterparts. Most of the dictionaries do not include most of these nouns, although some may have meanings. Transliteration is essential generally to Natural Language Processing (NLP) field and specifically to machine translation systems, cross-lang...

Typically native speakers of Arabic mix dialectal Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic in the same utterance. This phenomenon is known as linguistic code switching (LCS). It is a very challenging task to identify these LCS points in written text where we don’t have an accompanying speech signal. In this paper, we address automatic identification of LCS points in Arabic social media text by identif...

In every application that concerns the automatic processing of natural language, the problem of the dictionary size is posed. In this paper , we propose a compression dictionary al~orithm based on an affix analysis of the non diacritical Arabic. It consists in decomposing a word into its first elements taking into account the different linguistic transformations that can affect the morphologica...

From the beginning of the sixties, and starting with the first automatic analyzer proposed by David Cohen, one of the first theorists of NLP [1], research has continued with natural language processing and especially the automatic treatment of the Arabic language. In 1983, with a minimalist morphological analysis, based on the theory that any Arabic form is generated using root and pattern, res...

Abstract Technical terminology and Decknamen represent key hallmarks of the alchemical literature in different traditions. The opacity this vocabulary makes reading texts difficult and, order to cope with similar challenges, Byzantine, Syriac Arabic scholars soon started compiling technical vocabularies. In my paper I shall investigate two (partially overlapping) lexica, which open BL MSS Egert...

There is a sizeable group of words in Turkish whose ultimate origin known to be Arabic but direct donor language unclear. The paper analyses 69 such words, and compares the phonetic adaptations present them, those attested Arabisms as well found Farsisms, order determine probability them belonging one or other. results are compared opinions main etymological dictionaries Turkish, splitting into...

Standard English PoS-taggers generally involve tag-assignment (via dictionary-lookup etc) followed by tag-disambiguation (via a context model, e.g. PoS-ngrams or Brill transformations). We want to PoS-tag our Arabic Corpus, but evaluation of existing PoStaggers has highlighted shortcomings; in particular, about a quarter of all word tokens are not assigned a fully correct morphological analysis...

Machine simulation of human reading has been the subject of intensive research for almost three decades. A large number of research papers and reports have already been published on Latin, Chinese and Japanese characters. However, little work has been conducted on the automatic recognition of Arabic in both on-line and o!-line, has been achieved towards the automatic recognition of Arabic chara...