In this paper we present a new database for off-line Arabic handwriting recognition, together with several preprocessing procedures. We designed, collected and stored a database of Arabic handwriting (AHDB). This resulted in a unique databases dealing with handwritten information from Arabic text, both in terms of the size of the database as well as the number of different writers involved. We ...

This paper summarizes our recent progress in improving the automatic transcription of Arabic broadcast audio data, and some efforts to address the challenges of the broadcast conversational speech. Our efforts are aimed at improving the acoustic, pronunciation and language models taking into account specificities of the Arabic language. In previous work we demonstrated that explicit modeling of...

In this paper, we introduce a new approach to facilitate the calculation of relevance and noise abatement in information research systems in Arabic language. Our method is to remove morphosemantic ambiguity due to agglutination and lack of vocalization of the Arabic words. To do, we have proposed to transform words to semantic gene. The latter represent an accurate determination of the word mea...

In this paper, we describe a way to access Arabic Web Question Answering (QA) corpus using a chatbot, without the need for sophisticated natural language processing or logical inference. Any Natural Language (NL) interface to Question Answer (QA) system is constrained to reply with the given answers, so there is no need for NL generation to recreate well-formed answers, or for deep analysis or ...

Arabic Sign Language recognition is an emerging field of research. Previous attempts at automatic vision-based recognition of Arabic Sign Language mainly focused on finger spelling and recognizing isolated gestures. In this paper we report the first continuous Arabic Sign Language by building on existing research in feature extraction and pattern recognition. The development of the presented wo...

arabic language has etperienced many threats from the very time of the advent of islam up to now. these threats are doubled in the modern time. among these threats we can refer to the we of colloquialism or writing in latin alphabets forwhich somer have reactrd positively. specially in chatting. the output of this process haslead to creation of a language called .the language of chat. microsaft...

The Arabic language is a collection of multiple variants, among which Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) has a special status as the formal written standard language of the media, culture and education across the Arab world. The other variants are informal spoken dialects that are the media of communication for daily life. Arabic dialects differ substantially from MSA and each other in terms of phono...

This paper describes the issues involved in extending a trans-lingual lexicon, the TextWise Conceptual Interlingua (CI), with Arabic terms. The Conceptual Interlingua is based on the Princeton English WordNet (Fellbaum, 1998). It is a central component in the cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) system CINDOR (Conceptual INterlingua for DOcument Retrieval). Arabic has a rich morphological...

This article presents neurolinguistic data on word stress perception in Cairene Arabic, in comparison to previous results on German and Turkish. The main goal is to investigate how central properties of stress systems such as predictability of stress and metrical structure are reflected in the prosodic processing of words. Cairene Arabic is a language with a regular foot-based word stress syste...

This paper is an attempt towards producing a utility to process documents over the Web in diversified formats in a multilingual mode, and produce semi-translated documents from Arabic to English and the other way around, by using a term based approach. The process incorporates morphological analysis techniques of Arabic to handle the canonical forms of vocabularies in the terms stored in the te...