persian language has influenced arabic language in many different ways; especially in the lexical area of language. since many persian words have entered arabic language, this language has been affected by persian language and culture. many of these persian words can be found in an arabic lexicon called lesan-al-arab. the writers of this article have analyzed the arabic form of the word sepanjg...

The present research aims to identify Japanese listeners’ perception patterns of non-native liquid contrasts. The study examines Japanese listeners’ perception of Arabic liquids (/l/, /r/, /ll/ and /rr/). Japanese listeners showed poor performance on the Arabic /l/-/r/ discrimination and very good performance on the discrimination of the other liquid contrasts (/l/-ll/, /ll/-/rr/, /l/-/rr/, /r/...

The most important reference work for pharmacology in the Islamic Era is Materia Medica by Dioscorides, the Greek scientist. It’s also named fi-hayuli-al-Tibb in the Islamic era. There are several different translation of this book in Arabic and Persian. In this article I’m going to introduce a manuscript of one the Arabic translation of this book which hasn’t been mentioned in any bibliographi...

In order to construct a generic grammatical resource for Arabic language, we have chosen to develop an Arabic grammar based on TAG formalism. Our choice is, especially, justified by complementarities that we have noticed between Arabic syntax and this grammatical formalism. This paper consists of two comparative studies. The first is between a set of unification grammars. The second is between ...

As more and more Arabic textual information becomes available through the Web in homes and businesses, via Internet and Intranet services, there is an urgent need for technologies and tools to process the relevant information. Named Entity Recognition (NER) is an Information Extraction task that has become an integral part of many other Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, such as Machine T...

As a part of multi-media support system for Arabic e-learning, some vehicle should be provided for training students to pronounce Arabic text themselves. Since the Arabic alphabet is phonetic, it seems a good idea to transliterate Arabic into Roman, the most popular language, but there exists a big gap between Arabic and Roman besides a difference between their alphabets; scripting directions. ...

The rise in Arabic usage within various social media platforms, and notably in Twitter, has led to a growing interest in building Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications capable of dealing with informal colloquial Arabic, as it is the most commonly used form of Arabic in social media. The unique characteristics of the Arabic language make the extraction of Arabic named entities a ...

In this paper, we present a generic Optical Character Recognition system for Arabic script languages called Nabocr. Nabocr uses OCR approaches specific for Arabic script recognition. Performing recognition on Arabic script text is relatively more difficult than Latin text due to the nature of Arabic script, which is cursive and context sensitive. Moreover, Arabic script has different writing st...

Developments in Arabic information retrieval did not follow the increasing use of the Arabic Web during the last decade. Semantic indexing in a language with high inflectional morphology, such as Arabic, is not a trivial task and requires a text analysis in the original language. Excepting cross-language retrieval methods or limited studies, the main efforts, for developing semantic analysis me...

In this paper, we present recognition of handwritten characters of Arabic script. Arabic is now the 6 most spoken language in the world and is spoken by more than 200 million people worldwide. The 7 Century A.D., Arabic started to spread to the Middle East as many people started to convert to Islam. During this time of religious conversions, Arabic replaced many South Arabian languages, most of...