Sciweavers

LREC
2010
175views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Adapting a resource-light highly multilingual Named Entity Recognition system to Arabic
We present a working Arabic information extraction (IE) system that is used to analyze large volumes of news texts every day to extract the named entity (NE) types person, organiz...
Wajdi Zaghouani, Bruno Pouliquen, Mohamed Ebrahim,...
LREC
2010
150views Education» more  LREC 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Constructing and Using Broad-coverage Lexical Resource for Enhancing Morphological Analysis of Arabic
Broad-coverage language resources which provide prior linguistic knowledge must improve the accuracy and the performance of NLP applications. We are constructing a broad-coverage ...
Majdi Sawalha, Eric Atwell
CLEF
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Providing Multilingual Access to FLICKR for Arabic Users
In this paper we describe our submission for iCLEF2006: an interface that allows users to search FLICKR in Arabic for images with captions in a range of languages. We report and di...
Paul Clough, Azzah Al-Maskari, Kareem Darwish
EP
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Simplification of the Arabic Script: Three Different Approaches and their Implementations
Abstract. In 1945, the Cairo Academy for the Arabic Language opened a contest to find the best project for simplification of the Arabic writing system. They received about 200 repl...
Yannis Haralambous
TEX
2004
Springer
207views Latex» more  TEX 2004»
13 years 9 months ago
Arabic Mathematical e-Documents
What problems do e-documents with mathematical expressions in an Arabic presentation present? In addition to the known difficulties of handling mathematical expressions based on L...
Mustapha Eddahibi, Azzeddine Lazrek, Khalid Sami
CICLING
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Adapting the JIRS Passage Retrieval System to the Arabic Language
The need of having a Passage Retrieval (PR) system for Arabic texts is due essentially to our aim to build an Arabic Question Answering (QA) system in our research team. We have ch...
Yassine Benajiba, Paolo Rosso, José Manuel ...
ICDAR
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Shape-Based Alphabet for Off-line Arabic Handwriting Recognition
This article describes an off-line handwritten Arabic words recognition system. Both explicit graphem segmentation and feature extraction are originally designed for Latin cursive...
F. Menasri, Nicole Vincent, Mohamed Cheriet, Emman...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Phonetic pronunciations for arabic speech-to-text systems
In this paper two aspects of generating and using phonetic Arabic dictionaries are described. First, the use of single pronunciation acoustic models in the context of Arabic large...
Frank Diehl, Mark J. F. Gales, Marcus Tomalin, Phi...