Arabic GramCheck: A grammar checker for Arabic

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 643-665

  Shaalan, Khaled F ^a,b  

^a THE BRITISH UNIVERSITY IN DUBAI   (United Arab Emirates)

^b Cairo University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Arabic natural language processing; Common Arabic grammar errors; Grammar checkers; Grammatical checking

Indexed keywords

ARABIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; COMMON ARABIC GRAMMAR ERRORS; GRAMMAR CHECKERS; GRAMMATICAL CHECKING;

CONTEXT FREE GRAMMARS; ERROR CORRECTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SEMANTICS; WORD PROCESSING;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 20444417114     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.653     Document Type: Article

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