This paper presents a set of tools designed to assist traditional Basque verse writers during the composition process. In this article we are going to focus on the parts that have been created using finite-state technology: this includes tools such as syllable counters, rhyme checkers and a rhyme search utility. 1 The BAD tool and the Basque singing tradition The BAD tool is an assistant tool f...

Ambiguity in natural language is ubiquitous (Piantadosi, Tily & Gibson, 2012), yet spoken communication is effective due to integration of information carried in the speech signal with information available in the surrounding multimodal landscape. However, current cognitive models of spoken word recognition and comprehension are underspecified with respect to when and how multimodal information...

a large number of verses in holy quran deal with the issues of women, such as their rights and duties and the juridical commandments about them. in addition, the names of some famous women have been pointed out in some of its chapters (surahs) who played main roles in quranic stories or historical events. utilizing library sources, women-related quranic verses which have been brought in third e...

The massive amount of digital information available in all disciplines has generated a critical need to organize and structure their content. Among the existing tools for languages such as English or French can easily be adapted to Arabic language. In some cases a simple configuration is sufficient while in other cases significant modifications must be made to obtain acceptable results. We pres...

This paper describes Al-Bayan team participation in SemEval-2015 Task 3, Subtask A. Task 3 targets semantic solutions for answer selection in community question answering systems. We propose a knowledge-based solution for answer selection of Arabic questions, specialized for Islamic sciences. We build a Semantic Interpreter to evaluate the semantic similarity between Arabic question and answers...