This study attempts to analyze and evaluate theories and design principles for design and development of multimedia program for teaching and learning Arabic vocabulary. The researchers mentioned about the research tools, research samples and steps which are related to the design and development process. The study proposes the implementation of social constructivism theory proposed by Vygotsky (...

Arabic dialect classification has been an important and challenging problem for Arabic language processing, especially for social media text analysis and machine translation. In this paper we propose an approach to improving Arabic dialect classification with semi-supervised learning: multiple classifiers are trained with weakly supervised, strongly supervised, and unsupervised data. Their comb...

Named Entity Recognition (NER) is the task of classifying or labelling atomic elements in the text into categories such as Person, Location or Organisation. For Arabic language, recognizing named entities is a challenging task because of the complexity and the unique characteristics of this language. In addition, most of the previous work focuses on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), however, recogn...

The identification of the language of the script is an important stage in the process of recognition of the writing. There are several works in this research area, which treat various languages. Most of the used methods are global or statistical. In this present paper, we study the possibility of using the features of scripts to identify the language. The identification of the language of the s...

of yore, literary works have reflected social relationship and interaction in communities. the extent of this mutual impact depends on type of works and knowledge and information of their authors. golestan book of saadi that is considered as an example of persian speech art in both prose and poetry fields comprises of unique collectanea of cute implications in terms of content that resulted fro...

Language resources are important factor in any NLP application. However, the language resource support for Arabic is poor because the existing Arabic language resources are either scattered, inconsistent or even incomplete. In this paper we discuss the notion of having an integrated Arabic resource leveraging various pre-existing ones. We present a comparison between these resources then we pre...

arabic grammar aimed to protect arabic language from any erroneous pronunciations and writings. but grammar itself came to be complicated and came to be a goal rather than a means of reaching to exact learning of arabic language. some of contemporary arabic linguists strived to simplify the arabic grammar and rid it from any complexities. experts like ibrahim mostafa, makhzumi, showqii dhaif an...

This paper presents a case-study of work done by Applied Language Solutions (ALS) for a large social networking provider who claim to have built the world’s first multi-language social network, where Internet users from all over the world can communicate in languages that are available in the system. In an initial phase, the social networking provider contracted ALS to build Machine Translation...

The general goal of the author profiling task is to determine various social and demographic aspects of the author based on his pieces of writing. In this work, we propose an approach that combines word embeddings and classical logistic regression for identifying author gender and language variety based on the corresponding tweets. The model was trained on PAN 2017 Twitter Corpus that contains ...