Arabic natural language processing: Challenges and solutions

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Farghaly, Ali ^a   Shaalan, Khaled ^b,c  

^a MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES   (United States)

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

^c NONE   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Arabic dialects; Arabic script; Modern Standard Arabic

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTINATIVE LANGUAGE; ARABIC LANGUAGES; ARABIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ARABIC SCRIPTS; ARABIC TEXTS; MODERN STANDARDS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NON-CONCATENATIVE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STANDARDS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 75649114161     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15583430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1644879.1644881     Document Type: Article

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