Towards the development of an automatic readability measurements for arabic language

3rd International Conference on Digital Information Management, ICDIM 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 506-511

  Al Ajlan, Amani A ^a   Al Khalifa, Hend S ^a   Al Salman, Abdul Malik S ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; CURRICULA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATIONS; ARABIC LANGUAGES; ARABIC TEXTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PILOT EXPERIMENTS; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 62949194357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDIM.2008.4746711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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