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We address the problem of scarcity of educational Arabic Language Learning tools that advocate modern pedagogical models such as active learning which ensures language proficiency. In fact, we investigate the design and evaluation of an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Khaled Bachir Delassi , Lakhdar Zeggane , Hadda Cherroun , Abdelhamid Haouhat , Kaoutar Bouzouad

Standard accuracy metrics indicate that reading comprehension systems are making rapid progress, but the extent to which these systems truly understand language remains unclear. To reward systems with real language understanding abilities,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Robin Jia , Percy Liang

Understanding searchers' queries is an essential component of semantic search systems. In many cases, search queries involve specific attributes of an entity in a knowledge base (KB), which can be further used to find query answers. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Arash Dargahi Nobari , Arian Askari , Faegheh Hasibi , Mahmood Neshati

This paper presents a precursory yet novel approach to the question answering task using structural decomposition. Our system first generates linguistic structures such as syntactic and semantic trees from text, decomposes them into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Tomasz Jurczyk , Jinho D. Choi

In this research paper, I will elaborate on a method to evaluate machine translation models based on their performance on underlying syntactical phenomena between English and Arabic languages. This method is especially important as such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ofek Rafaeli , Omri Abend , Leshem Choshen , Dmitry Nikolaev

We consider entity-level sentiment analysis in Arabic, a morphologically rich language with increasing resources. We present a system that is applied to complex posts written in response to Arabic newspaper articles. Our goal is to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-13 Noura Farra , Kathleen McKeown

Spelling correction is the task of identifying spelling mistakes, typos, and grammatical mistakes in a given text and correcting them according to their context and grammatical structure. This work introduces "AraSpell," a framework for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Mahmoud Salhab , Faisal Abu-Khzam

This paper provides a method for indexing and retrieving Arabic texts, based on natural language processing. Our approach exploits the notion of template in word stemming and replaces the words by their stems. This technique has proven to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Sadik Bessou , Mohamed Touahria

Question Answering has come a long way from answer sentence selection, relational QA to reading and comprehension. We shift our attention to generative question answering (gQA) by which we facilitate machine to read passages and answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Rajarshee Mitra

Rampant use of offensive language on social media led to recent efforts on automatic identification of such language. Though offensive language has general characteristics, attacks on specific entities may exhibit distinct phenomena such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Hamdy Mubarak , Ahmed Abdelali , Kareem Darwish , Younes Samih

This work is part of a large research project entitled "Or\'eodule" aimed at developing tools for automatic speech recognition, translation, and synthesis for Arabic language. Our attention has mainly been focused on an attempt to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Mourad Mars , Mounir Zrigui , Mohamed Belgacem , Anis Zouaghi

Matching texts in highly inflected languages such as Arabic by simple stemming strategy is unlikely to perform well. In this paper, we present a strategy for automatic text matching technique for for inflectional languages, using Arabic as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Tarek El-Shishtawy , Fatma El-Ghannam

The social media network phenomenon leads to a massive amount of valuable data that is available online and easy to access. Many users share images, videos, comments, reviews, news and opinions on different social networks sites, with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Abdulaziz M. Alayba , Vasile Palade , Matthew England , Rahat Iqbal

The logic-based machine-understandable framework of the Semantic Web often challenges naive users when they try to query ontology-based knowledge bases. Existing research efforts have approached this problem by introducing Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-08-07 Iyad AlAgha

This paper presents two effective approaches for Extractive Question Answering (QA) on the Quran. It addresses challenges related to complex language, unique terminology, and deep meaning in the text. The second uses few-shot prompting with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Mohamed Basem , Islam Oshallah , Ali Hamdi , Ammar Mohammed

Multi-hop Question Answering (QA) is a challenging task since it requires an accurate aggregation of information from multiple context paragraphs and a thorough understanding of the underlying reasoning chains. Recent work in multi-hop QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Kaige Xie , Sarah Wiegreffe , Mark Riedl

This paper introduces Ta'keed, an explainable Arabic automatic fact-checking system. While existing research often focuses on classifying claims as "True" or "False," there is a limited exploration of generating explanations for claim…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Saud Althabiti , Mohammad Ammar Alsalka , Eric Atwell

This work consists of creating a system of the Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) based on a system of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for the Arabic language using the tool CMU Sphinx3 [1], based on the approach of HMM. To this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-05-16 Naim Terbeh , Mounir Zrigui

The complexities of Arabic language in morphology, orthography and dialects makes sentiment analysis for Arabic more challenging. Also, text feature extraction from short messages like tweets, in order to gauge the sentiment, makes this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Abdulaziz M. Alayba , Vasile Palade , Matthew England , Rahat Iqbal

Question answering (QA) in English has been widely explored, but multilingual datasets are relatively new, with several methods attempting to bridge the gap between high- and low-resourced languages using data augmentation through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Arnab Debnath , Navid Rajabi , Fardina Fathmiul Alam , Antonios Anastasopoulos