Advances in Arabic Language Processing

Guest Editors :

Karim Bouzoubaa, Mohammadia School of Engineers, Morocco. karim.bouzouba@emi.ac.ma
Ali Farghaly, Oracle Coporation & Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA. ali.farghaly@oracle.com
Khaled Shaalan, The British University in Duabi, UAE.  khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae

Publication Date: June 2010.

 

Preface
Karim Bouzoubaa, Ali Farghali, Khaled Shaalan, pp. 1-2.

Arabic Machine Translation: A Developmental Perspective
Ali Farghali, pp. 3-10.

Rule-based Approach in Arabic Natural Language Processing
Khaled Shaalan, pp. 11-19.

Automatically Extending Named Entities coverage of Arabic WordNet using Wikipedia
Musa Alkhalifa, Horacio Rodríguez, pp. 20-36.

An Evaluated Semantic Query Expansion and Structure-based Approach for Enhancing Arabic Question/Answering
Lahsen Abouenour, Karim Bouzoubaa, Paolo Rosso, pp. 37-51.

Construction of an HPSG grammar for the Arabic language and its specification in TDL
Kais Haddar, Ines Zalila, Sirine Boukedi, pp. 52-64.

TR-Classifier and kNN Evaluation for Topic Identification tasks
Mourad Abbas , Kamel Smaili, Daoud Berkani, pp. 65-74.